- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Civil unions (limited rights)
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Public Opinion
Public opinion in Czech Republic appears to be somewhat divided on LGBTQ+ issues, as evidenced by recent studies.
OPPOSE
SUPPORT
Will confessing to homosexuality cause difficulties with others in your town or village?
(CVVM, 2019)
Will confessing to homosexuality cause difficulties with others in your town or village?
(CVVM, 2018)
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 14 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Czech Republic.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Same-sex marriage in Czech Republic is civil unions (limited rights).
A new law will be going into effect in 9 days.
Going into effect Jan 1, 2025
Civil unions (marriage rights)
A law that gives registered partnerships the same rights as marriage passed and it will come into effect in 2025.
Civil unions (limited rights)
The Czech Registered Partnerships have been condemned for not having equal rights to marriage like in some other countries with civil unions. Differences between marriage and registered partnership are: different procedural questions (the ceremony is not the same), no automatic name change, no community property of spouses is created, and no parental rights (no joint-adoption form institutions, no step-parent adoption) etc.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Czech Republic is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Czech Republic, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Czech Republic is legal, but requires surgery.
A new law will be going into effect in 6 months.
Going into effect Jul 1, 2025
Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
The Czech Republic’s Constitutional Court ruled to dismiss part of a law requiring people to undergo gender-affirmation surgery, including sterilization, in order to officially change their gender. Court said the requirements are “unconstitutional” and “in conflict with the fundamental right of trans people to have protected their physical integrity and personal autonomy in connection with their human dignity.”
Gender-affirming care in Czech Republic is legal.
Current status
Since 1994
Legal
In 1994, Czech Republic adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.
Legal, but restricted for minors
In 1997, Czechoslovakia adopted the ICD-9 classification, which included codes allowing for the diagnosis of transsexualism in adults.
Restricted
In 1971, Czechoslovakia legalized sterilization, which de facto meant legalizing sex reassignment surgery, however, medical records regarding transsexualism had to be obtained abroad.
Until 1971
Banned
Medical transition is not possible
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Czech Republic is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
The Czech Republic does not currently recognize non-binary identities.
LGBT discrimination in Czech Republic is illegal.
Current status
Since Jun 17, 2009
Illegal
All discrimination (about the LGBT) are banned in Czech Republic
LGBT employment discrimination in Czech Republic is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jun 17, 2009
Sexual orientation and gender identity
LGBT housing discrimination in Czech Republic is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jun 17, 2009
Sexual orientation and gender identity
LGBT Housing discrimination are illegal
Same-sex adoption in Czech Republic is single only.
A new law will be going into effect in 9 days.
Going into effect Jan 1, 2025
Second parent adoption only
The new law on registered partnerships also allows gay couples to adopt their partner’s child.
Single only
Law no. 89/2012 Sb § 800 allows individuals to adopt children.
Until 2014
Illegal
The Czech Republic does not currently allow gay couples to adopt, as adoption is reserved for married couples only and gay couples are not legally able to get married in the country.
Intersex infant surgery in Czech Republic is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There is no official ban on unnecessary sex reassignment operations in infants in Czech Republic.
Serving openly in military in Czech Republic is legal.
Current status
Legal
According to research by The Palm Center, "homosexuality is not considered a liability for enlistment. All citizens are required to serve, regardless of sexual orientation. Act No. l 218/1999 Coll. (Military Act) stipulates military service 'for all citizens of the Czech Republic, regardless of sexual orientation.'"
Blood donations by MSMs in Czech Republic is legal.
Current status
Since Jul 1, 2024
Legal
The Ministry of Health in the Czech Republic is revising its blood donation guidelines for hospitals. They are eliminating the automatic exclusion of men who have sex with men from donating blood. Gender and sexual orientation no longer effect a person's eligibility to donate blood.
Until Jul 1, 2024
Banned (1-year deferral)
Gay and bisexual men are allowed to donate blood in the Czech Republic following a one-year deferral period.
Conversion therapy in Czech Republic is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
Currently Not criminalized or regulated. Attitude of homosexuality as a disease is still commonplace.
Equal age of consent in Czech Republic is equal.
Current status
Since Jul 1, 1990
Equal
The age of consent in Czech Republic is 15 years for both heterosexual and homosexual individuals.
LGBT Rights by District
View the LGBT laws in each individual district of Czech Republic.
- Benešov
- Beroun
- Blansko
- Brno-město
- Brno-venkov
- Bruntál
- Břeclav
- Cheb
- Chomutov
- Chrudim
- Domažlice
- Děčín
- Frýdek Místek
- Havlíčkův Brod
- Hodonín
- Hradec Králové
- Jablonec nad Nisou
- Jeseník
- Jihlava
- Jindřichův Hradec
- Jičín
- Karlovy Vary
- Karviná
- Kladno
- Klatovy
- Kolín
- Kromĕříž
- Kutná Hora
- Liberec
- Litoměřice
- Louny
- Mladá Boleslav
- Most
- Mělník
- Nový Jičín
- Nymburk
- Náchod
- Olomouc
- Opava
- Ostrava město
- Pardubice
- Pelhřimov
- Plzeň jih
- Plzeň město
- Plzeň sever
- Prachatice
- Praha 1
- Praha 10
- Praha 11
- Praha 12
- Praha 13
- Praha 14
- Praha 15
- Praha 2
- Praha 3
- Praha 4
- Praha 5
- Praha 6
- Praha 7
- Praha 8
- Praha 9
- Praha východ
- Praha západ
- Prostĕjov
- Písek
- Přerov
- Příbram
- Rakovník
- Rokycany
- Rychnov nad Kněžnou
- Semily
- Sokolov
- Strakonice
- Svitavy
- Tachov
- Teplice
- Trutnov
- Tábor
- Třebíč
- Uherské Hradištĕ
- Vsetín
- Vyškov
- Zlín
- Znojmo
- Ústí nad Labem
- Ústí nad Orlicí
- Česká Lípa
- České Budějovice
- Český Krumlov
- Šumperk
- Žd’ár nad Sázavou
- Jihoceský kraj (Region)
- Jihomoravský kraj (Region)
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