LGBTQ rights in Vietnam | |
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Status | Legal |
Gender identity | Transgender person can change legal gender after sex reassignment surgery[1] |
Military | Lesbian, gay and bisexual people may serve openly |
Discrimination protections | Sexual protection in the provision of goods and services for transgender people |
Family rights | |
Recognition of relationships | No recognition of same-sex unions |
Adoption | No |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Vietnam face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents. From 2000, both male and female forms of same-sex sexual activity are legal and are believed to never have been criminalized in Vietnamese history.[2] However, same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are ineligible for the legal protections available to heterosexual couples. Vietnam provides limited anti-discrimination protections for transgender people.[3][a] The right to change gender was officially legalized in Vietnam after the National Assembly passed an amendment to the Civil Code in 2015.[4]
Vietnam's first annual gay pride parade took place in Hanoi on 5 August 2012.[5] In 2017, pride parades were held in around 34 other cities and provinces.[6][7]
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