- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Illegal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Maharashtra is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Maharashtra is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Maharashtra is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Maharashtra is legal, but requires surgery.
Under section 6 of Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, a trans person may apply to be issued a certificate of identity that certifies that they are transgender (denoted as "Transgender"). Upon receiving this certificate, the applicants have the right to be recorded as transgender in all official documents.
Gender-affirming care in Maharashtra is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Maharashtra is unknown.
LGBT discrimination in Maharashtra is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Maharashtra is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Maharashtra is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Maharashtra is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Maharashtra is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Maharashtra is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Maharashtra is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Maharashtra is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Maharashtra is equal.