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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Civil unions (marriage 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
- ✖ Second parent adoption only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Teplice is civil unions (marriage rights).
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2025
Civil unions (marriage rights) under federal Czechia law
A law that changed the name of gay partnerships from 'registered partnership' to just 'partnership' and gave partnerships the same rights as marriage (without adoption) came into effect in January 2025.
Civil unions (limited rights) under federal Czechia law
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 Teplice is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship under federal Czechia law
In Czech Republic, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Teplice is legal, but requires surgery.
A new law will be going into effect in 3 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.”
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Teplice is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
The Czech Republic does not currently recognize non-binary identities.
LGBT discrimination in Teplice is illegal.
Current status
Since Jun 17, 2009
Illegal
All discrimination (about the LGBT) are banned in Czech Republic
LGBT employment discrimination in Teplice is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jun 17, 2009
Sexual orientation and gender identity
LGBT housing discrimination in Teplice 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 Teplice is second parent adoption only.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2025
Second parent adoption only
The new law on registered partnerships also allows gay couples to adopt their partner’s child.
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 Teplice 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 Teplice 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 Teplice 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 Teplice 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 Teplice 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.
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