- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- 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 and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (5-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Kaohsiung is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Kaohsiung is legal.
The Executive Yuan passed it the following day, sending it to the Legislative Yuan for fast-tracked review. The bill was passed on 17 May, signed by the President on 22 May and took effect on 24 May 2019 (the last day possible under the Court's ruling). Taiwan was the first Asian country to approve gay marriage legislation.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Kaohsiung is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Kaohsiung is legal, but requires surgery.
Since 2021, there have been several court cases in which plaintiffs have been able to change their gender without undergoing surgery. However, these rulings are favorable only in individual cases.
1988, with surgery requirements and two psychiatric diagnosis certificates. Since 2021, no surgery requirements case by a Taiwan court ruling
Gender-affirming care in Kaohsiung is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kaohsiung is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kaohsiung is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Kaohsiung is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited under Article 5 of the Employment Service Act (2007) and Chapter II of the Gender Equality in Employment Act (2008).
LGBT housing discrimination in Kaohsiung is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Kaohsiung is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Kaohsiung is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Kaohsiung is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kaohsiung is banned (5-year deferral).
Conversion therapy in Kaohsiung is banned.
Equal age of consent in Kaohsiung is equal.