- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unregistered cohabitation
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- 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
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Karnataka is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Karnataka is unregistered cohabitation.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Karnataka is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Karnataka 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 Karnataka is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Karnataka is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Karnataka is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Karnataka is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Karnataka is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Karnataka is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Karnataka is illegal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Karnataka is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Karnataka is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Karnataka is equal.