Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    Unknown
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    Unknown
    Gender-Affirming Care
    Unknown
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    Unknown
    Discrimination
    ✔ Illegal
    Employment Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Adoption
    Unknown
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    Unknown
    Conversion Therapy
    ✔ Banned
    Age of Consent
    Unknown
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History

Homosexual activity in Tamil Nadu

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Homosexual activity in Tamil Nadu is legal.

Current status
Since Sep 6, 2018
Legal under federal India law
In the Supreme Court case of Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India, a five-judge Constitutional Bench overturned the Supreme Court's decision in Suresh Kumar Koushal v. Naz Foundation and decriminalized homosexuality by striking down the provisions of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that deemed sexual acts between consenting adults as a crime.
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Same-sex marriage in Tamil Nadu

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Same-sex marriage in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Censorship of LGBT issues in Tamil Nadu

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Tamil Nadu is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Tamil Nadu, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Tamil Nadu

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Right to change legal gender in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Gender-affirming care in Tamil Nadu

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Gender-affirming care in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tamil Nadu

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

LGBT discrimination in Tamil Nadu

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LGBT discrimination in Tamil Nadu is illegal.

Current status
Illegal
Nationwide since 2018.
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LGBT employment discrimination in Tamil Nadu

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LGBT employment discrimination in Tamil Nadu is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
nationwide since 2018.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Tamil Nadu

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LGBT housing discrimination in Tamil Nadu is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2018
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Only for gender identity and expression.
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Same-sex adoption in Tamil Nadu

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Same-sex adoption in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Intersex infant surgery in Tamil Nadu

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Intersex infant surgery in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Tamil Nadu

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Serving openly in military in Tamil Nadu is legal.

Current status
Since May 20, 1950
Legal
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Blood donations by MSMs in Tamil Nadu

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Blood donations by MSMs in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Conversion therapy in Tamil Nadu

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Conversion therapy in Tamil Nadu is banned.

Current status
Since Jun 8, 2021
Banned
Under a section titled “Physical and Mental Health Professionals”, justice Venkatesh said healthcare professionals should offer support to LGBT+ people “who are facing stigma and discrimination from society”.

However, he also prohibited “any attempt to medically ‘cure’ or change the sexual orientation of LGBTIQA+ people to heterosexual or the gender identity of transgender people to cisgender.”

Justice Venkatesh also ordered the National Medical Commission, the Indian Psychiatric Society and the Rehabilitation Council of India to revoke the licence of any professionals who involve themselves “in any form or method of conversion ‘therapy'”.
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Until Aug 2022
Ambiguous under federal India law
Since August 2022, the National Medical Council is prohibited from performing conversion therapy's. However, even though they aren't allowed to be performed, it does not mean they are banned.
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Equal age of consent in Tamil Nadu

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Equal age of consent in Tamil Nadu is unknown.

Current status
Unknown