- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- 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
- ✖ Illegal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Parental approval required
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data, there appears to be strong opposition to LGBTQ+ rights in Kazakhstan.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 8 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Kazakhstan.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
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History
Homosexual activity in Kazakhstan is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Kazakhstan is unrecognized.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Kazakhstan is state-enforced.
In January 2024, an LGBTQ-education website for teenagers, SelfTanu.kz, was blocked by Kazakhstan's Culture and Information Ministry, which citied safeguarding children's rights and respecting Kazakhstan's societal norms and traditions as reasons for the ban.
Right to change legal gender in Kazakhstan is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Kazakhstan is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kazakhstan is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kazakhstan is illegal.
As an example, in 2019 the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan ordered a compensation for illegally uploading a photo of two women kissing on Facebook without their consent
Also in 2019, the government of Kazakhstan adopted a recommendation to ensure the freedom of human rights advocacy for the LGBTI groups
Date shown is the date the Constitution of Kazakhstan was accepted. Article 14 has been included ever since
LGBT employment discrimination in Kazakhstan is sexual orientation and gender identity.
The official list of mental illnesses of the Republic of Kazakhstan does not include either sexuality or gender identity. And therefore, since a person does not have any reason to be considered incompetent, they have the right to be employed (Article 24 of the Constitution)
The Health Code of Kazakhstan does not recognize any sexual orientation to be a mental disorder either, while the Labor Code bans any discrimination (Article 5) when it comes to employment, retirement, wage distribution, etc. Transgender people are guaranteed the same rights under the Health Code. While a person's gender is included explicitly, sexuality isn't, however it falls under the "other circumstances" category, as a person is competent to be employed
LGBT housing discrimination in Kazakhstan is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Kazakhstan is illegal.
Intersex infant surgery in Kazakhstan is parental approval required.
Serving openly in military in Kazakhstan is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kazakhstan is legal.
Conversion therapy in Kazakhstan is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Kazakhstan is equal.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Kazakhstan.
- Ongtüstik Qazaqstan oblysy
- Pavlodar oblysy
- Qaraghandy oblysy
- Qostanay oblysy
- Qyzylorda oblysy
- Shyghys Qazaqstan oblysy
- Soltüstik Qazaqstan oblysy
- Zhambyl oblysy
- Almaty (City)
- Astana (City)
- Bayqongyr (City)