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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Covasna is legal.
Current status
Since 2001
Legal
Before decriminalisation, enforcement of the law was reportedly rare and in 2001 Romania fully decriminalised homosexuality.
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
The famous article 200 which was introduced in 1968 criminalizes all sexual relations between persons of the same sex. The punishment was imprisonment from one to five years.
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Under the authoritarian regime of Carol II homosexuality was banned and a punishment of imprisonment from 6 months to 3 years.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Covasna is no censorship.
Current status
Since Dec 16, 2020
No censorship
Romania's Constitutional Court struck down the ban on education of gender identity, which was put into effect a few months prior.
Gender-affirming care in Covasna is legal.
Current status
Legal
Gender affirming care is legal in Romania but often difficult to access in practice. There are no known legal barriers for those under 18 with some having accessed it.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Covasna is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Romania does not recognize non-binary gender identities.
LGBT discrimination in Covasna is illegal in some contexts.
Current status
Since 2000
Illegal in some contexts
While anti-discrimination laws may apply to transgender individuals in Romania, only sexual orientation is stated in their constitution.
"Anti-discrimination legislation sanctions ‘any difference, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, social status, beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, chronic disease, HIV positive status, belonging to a disadvantaged group or any other criterion, aiming to or resulting in a restriction or prevention of the equal recognition, use or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social and cultural field or in any other fields of public life.'"
"Anti-discrimination legislation sanctions ‘any difference, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, nationality, ethnic origin, language, religion, social status, beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, chronic disease, HIV positive status, belonging to a disadvantaged group or any other criterion, aiming to or resulting in a restriction or prevention of the equal recognition, use or exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social and cultural field or in any other fields of public life.'"
LGBT employment discrimination in Covasna is sexual orientation only.
Current status
Since Dec 2, 2000
Sexual orientation only
Transgenders have yet to receive discrimination protections in employment. Something Ilga Europe advices Romania to do
LGBT housing discrimination in Covasna is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Dec 2, 2000
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Housing discrimination is illegal against all LGBT people
Intersex infant surgery in Covasna is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There is no bans on intersex infant surgery in Romania
Serving openly in military in Covasna is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Current status
Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual people are allowed, transgenders are not. Only 22 countries allow trans service, Romania is not one of them
Blood donations by MSMs in Covasna is legal.
Current status
Since Jan 15, 2008
Legal
The first version of the questionnaire stated that male homosexuals, African citizens from countries infected with malaria, uneducated people, as well as other categories of people cannot donate blood in Romania. After the hearings of the Council for Combating Discrimination, the Ministry of Health removed the questions considered discriminatory from the questionnaire.
Conversion therapy in Covasna is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Conversion therapy is legal in Romania.
Equal age of consent in Covasna is equal.
Current status
Equal
The age of consent of 16 years is equal for everyone.
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