- Homosexuality
- ⚢✖ Male illegal, female legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✖ Single only
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Female equal, male N/A
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Aşgabat is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Aşgabat is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Aşgabat is illegal.
The Handbook for Higher Education Institutions presented by the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan includes transsexuality and hermaphroditism within the investigations on controversial sexual situations and mentions that these examinations are carried out in ambiguous cases, i.e. when a person's gender (female or male) is uncertain.
Gender-affirming care in Aşgabat is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Aşgabat is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Aşgabat is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Aşgabat is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Aşgabat is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Aşgabat is single only.
Intersex infant surgery in Aşgabat is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Aşgabat is ambiguous.
Blood donations by MSMs in Aşgabat is ambiguous.
In accordance with article 13 of the Law «On blood donation», donors can be capable persons between 18 and 60 years of age who do not have any medical contraindications related to donating blood. Blood donors cannot be persons who have diseases that are dangerous to the life and health of the recipient.
Conversion therapy in Aşgabat is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Aşgabat is female equal, male n/a.