- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Cantemir is legal.
Current status
Since Jul 10, 1995
Legal
In 1995, Moldova decriminalised homosexuality. This also applies in Cantemir.
Male illegal, female legal under federal Moldova law
An article under which sodomy was punishable by imprisonment from 5 to 8 years appeared in the Soviet Criminal Code on March 7, 1934 - number 154-a: “Sexual intercourse between a man and a man (sodomy) - imprisonment for a term of three to five years. Sodomy committed with the use of violence or taking advantage of the dependent position of the victim - imprisonment for a term of five to eight years."
Censorship of LGBT issues in Cantemir is no censorship.
Current status
Since Oct 14, 2013
No censorship
Since 2013, there are no known laws censoring LGBTIQ+ topics in Cantemir.
Fine as punishment
In 2013, Moldova passed a law banning “propaganda of intimate relations outside of marriage and family” to minors. This law applied to Cantemir.
The law would be repealed months later.
The law would be repealed months later.
Right to change legal gender in Cantemir is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Current status
Since Apr 26, 2001
Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
Transgender people are allowed to change their legal name and gender on official documents in Moldova, but require a psychiatric diagnosis confirming their "transgenderism" to do so. This also applies in Cantemir.
Gender-affirming care in Cantemir is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Cantemir is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT employment discrimination in Cantemir is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT housing discrimination in Cantemir is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Intersex infant surgery in Cantemir is not banned.
Current status
Not banned under federal Moldova law
There is no official ban on unnecessary sex reassignment operations in infants in Moldova.
Serving openly in military in Cantemir is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Blood donations by MSMs in Cantemir is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
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