- 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 La Rioja is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in La Rioja is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in La Rioja is unknown.
Gender-affirming care in La Rioja is legal.
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 La Rioja is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in La Rioja is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in La Rioja is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in La Rioja is not banned.
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in the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Federal Congress, however, in 2021, it was reported that the bill had been withdrawn from consideration.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 La Rioja is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in La Rioja is unknown.
Conversion therapy in La Rioja is banned.
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.