- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- Unknown
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in La Rioja is legal.
Same-sex marriage in La Rioja is legal.
Current status
Since Jul 3, 2005
Legal under federal Spain law
In July of 2005, Spain became the third country in the world to legalize gay marriage, following the Netherlands and Belgium. The law, which was passed by the Spanish parliament and signed into law by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, also allows same-sex couples to adopt children.
Censorship of LGBT issues in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Right to change legal gender in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in La Rioja is recognized.
Current status
Since Jun 29, 2017
Recognized
Spain does not provide recognition for non-binary, and intersex people on a national level. However, three provinces have introduced such recognition: Canarias, La Rioja, and Navarra. Navarra became the first on June 29th, 2017, when Law No. 8 (2017) went into effect. Article 44 (1) and (2) state 1. "The Public Administrations of Navarra, within the scope of their powers, must adopt all the necessary measures so that the administrative documentation, in all the areas contemplated in this provincial law, is appropriate to the diversity of sexual or gender identity of LGTBI+ people and the heterogeneity of the family situation."
LGBT employment discrimination in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Intersex infant surgery in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Serving openly in military in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Blood donations by MSMs in La Rioja is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Conversion therapy in La Rioja is banned.
Current status
Since Dec 22, 2022
Banned under federal Spain law
Trans law prohibits conversion therapy intended to change sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
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