- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Same-sex marriage in Chaco is legal.
Current status
Since Jul 15, 2010
Legal under federal Argentina law
In 2010, Argentina became the first country in Latin America to legalize gay marriage. The Senate passed the bill by a narrow margin (33 votes in favor, 27 against, and 3 abstained). Argentina was the tenth country in the world to enact marriage equality.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Chaco is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Chaco, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Chaco is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Gender-affirming care in Chaco is legal.
Current status
Since Apr 16, 2025
Legal, but banned for minors under federal Argentina law
Decree 62/2025 signed by President Javier Milei, in force since February 7, 2025, replaced article 11 of Law No. 26,743 on Gender Identity, with the following:
ARTICLE 11.- Right to free personal development. All persons over EIGHTEEN (18) years of age may, in accordance with article 1 of this law and in order to guarantee the enjoyment of their comprehensive health, access total and partial surgical interventions and/or comprehensive hormonal treatments to adapt their body, including their genitalia, to their self-perceived gender identity, without the need to request judicial or administrative authorization.
To access comprehensive hormonal treatments, it will not be necessary to prove the will in the surgical intervention of total or partial genital reassignment. In both cases, only the informed consent of the person will be required.
The public health system's effectors, whether state, private or part of the social security subsystem, must permanently guarantee the rights recognized by this law.
All health benefits contemplated in this article are included in the Mandatory Medical Plan, or the one that replaces it, as regulated by the implementing authority.
Persons under EIGHTEEN (18) years of age will not be able to access the interventions and treatments referred to in this article.
ARTICLE 11.- Right to free personal development. All persons over EIGHTEEN (18) years of age may, in accordance with article 1 of this law and in order to guarantee the enjoyment of their comprehensive health, access total and partial surgical interventions and/or comprehensive hormonal treatments to adapt their body, including their genitalia, to their self-perceived gender identity, without the need to request judicial or administrative authorization.
To access comprehensive hormonal treatments, it will not be necessary to prove the will in the surgical intervention of total or partial genital reassignment. In both cases, only the informed consent of the person will be required.
The public health system's effectors, whether state, private or part of the social security subsystem, must permanently guarantee the rights recognized by this law.
All health benefits contemplated in this article are included in the Mandatory Medical Plan, or the one that replaces it, as regulated by the implementing authority.
Persons under EIGHTEEN (18) years of age will not be able to access the interventions and treatments referred to in this article.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Chaco is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT employment discrimination in Chaco is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Chaco is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Dec 31, 2021
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Legal protections in the province under Law 3467-K on Access to Housing and Land for the LGBTIQNB+ Population.
Intersex infant surgery in Chaco is not banned.
Current status
Not banned under federal Argentina law
In 2018, Bill No. 7037-D-2018 aimed at banning involuntary and/or unnecessary medical treatments and procedures that modify a person's sexual characteristics was presented in the Argentine Federal Congress, but had not been approved.
In 2019, the Comprehensive Protection of Sex Characteristics Bill (2019) with similar objectives was presented in the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Federal Congress, however, in 2021, it was reported that the bill had been withdrawn from consideration.
In 2022, the previous bill was reintroduced in the Chamber of Deputies with the support of several sponsors as Bill No. 6041-D (2022).
In 2019, the Comprehensive Protection of Sex Characteristics Bill (2019) with similar objectives was presented in the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Federal Congress, however, in 2021, it was reported that the bill had been withdrawn from consideration.
In 2022, the previous bill was reintroduced in the Chamber of Deputies with the support of several sponsors as Bill No. 6041-D (2022).
Serving openly in military in Chaco is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Conversion therapy in Chaco is banned.
Current status
Since Dec 3, 2010
Banned under federal Argentina law
Article 3(c) of the Law on Mental Health (2010) establishes that a person cannot be diagnosed on their mental health exclusively on the basis of their "sexual choice or identity”. It prevents health professionals, particularly psychiatrists, from legally engaging in sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE).
Additionally, at the subnational level, in December 2020, the province of Santa Cruz passed the Integral Law for the recognition and historical reparation of the rights of trans persons (Law No. 3.724), which prohibits "aversion therapies" for trans people under Article 24.
Additionally, at the subnational level, in December 2020, the province of Santa Cruz passed the Integral Law for the recognition and historical reparation of the rights of trans persons (Law No. 3.724), which prohibits "aversion therapies" for trans people under Article 24.