In 1969, there were 22 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 8 changes made and 3 in the following year. A total of 105 legal changes were made in the 1960s.
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- July 19Homosexual activity becomes ambiguous.Iraq's Criminal Code does not explicitly mention homosexuality in its penal code, however certain articles such as article 401 can be used against LGBT community. The article criminalises “immodest acts” in public, and punishable by a period of detention of up to six months and/or a fine.
- June 27Homosexual activity becomes legal.Legalized when Canada legalized it.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- May 21Equal age of consent becomes unequal.
- May 14
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- (date unknown)Gender-affirming care becomes restricted.In 1969, the first gender identity clinic opened in Toronto at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and the first gender-affirming surgery in Canada was performed in 1970. To qualify, applicants had to be employed, be straight, never have been convicted of a crime, have lived as their identified gender for at least two years, and have changed all their legal documents.
- Gender-affirming care becomes restricted.In 1969, Bangladesh legalized sterilization, which de facto meant legalizing sex reassignment surgery, however, medical records regarding transsexualism had to be obtained abroad.
- January 1Gender-affirming care becomes restricted.In 1969, the first gender identity clinic opened in Toronto at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and the first gender-affirming surgery in Canada was performed in 1970. To qualify, applicants had to be employed, be straight, never have been convicted of a crime, have lived as their identified gender for at least two years, and have changed all their legal documents. In 1979, Canada adopted the ICD-9 classification, which included codes allowing for the diagnosis of transsexualism in adults. That same year, Canada legalized sterilization.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.
- JanuaryServing openly in military becomes ambiguous.There has never been any specific law banning homosexuals from serving in the army. However, Article 235 of 1969 of the Military Penal Code, which prohibits the "practice of a libidinous act, homosexual or not", was often used to persecute gays in the military and try to expel them.