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🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Legal Status in China

Based on national laws as of 2025

22/100
High Risk
✓ Same-sex relations legal
✓ Equal age of consent
✗ Partnership / union
✗ Same-sex marriage
✗ Adoption rights
✗ Anti-discrimination law
✗ Legal gender change

Homosexuality decriminalised in 1997 under revised Criminal Law. Removed from the official Classification of Mental Disorders in 2001 — a landmark step at the time. No legal recognition of same-sex partnerships, civil unions or marriages. No adoption rights for same-sex couples. No federal anti-discrimination protections covering sexual orientation or gender identity. Legal gender change is possible in limited circumstances (requires medical diagnosis and, in most provinces, surgical interventio

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Shenzhen is China's most successful planned city — built from a fishing village to a metropolis of 13 million in four decades — and one of its youngest demographically. The city's technology and innovation economy (Tencent, Huawei, DJI are headquartered here), its young professional population and its proximity to Hong Kong have created a relatively tolerant social environment. The LGBTQ+ scene is small but present, concentrated in the Futian and Nanshan districts, and benefits from the city's generally progressive, forward-looking demographic.

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