LGBT rights in Constancia

LGBT rights in the Imperial State of Constancia
Same-sex sexual activity	Legal / tolerated
Adoption	Non-existent as this is a State responsibility
Military service	Legal, subject to restrictions
Discrimination protections	Dependent on rank and status in society

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual rights do not formally exist in the Imperial State of Constancia.

Detailed chart

Same-sex sexual activity legal	Unregulated within private households and domiciles, albeit subject to communal governance and societal taboos. Considered a criminal act and technically criminally prosecuteable under Article II, Section 9 of the Criminal Code, although this is generally invoked only when facts arise in public: Section 9. Any person who, with the intention of causing violence or creating public disorder or public disturbance, says, writes, prints, utters or publishes any words bringing the Mesazon or His Constancian Majesty's Government, or any court of law into contempt; to excite disaffection against the Kingdom; to excite the subjects of the Kingdom to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter established by law of the Kingdom; to promote feelings of ill-will between the ethnicities, races and classes of the subjects of the Kingdom so as to endanger the peace, order and good government of the Kingdom; or counsels or advises any person to commit any of the aforesaid acts; shall be guilty of a crime, called Subversion of the Kingdom, and liable to the punishment of suspension of civil rights and subject to forfeiture of liberty by imprisonment, or hard labor, at the judgment of the court, for one year for each offense.
Gender expression	Tolerated within households, subject to the head of household. Subject to communal governance and societal taboos if expressed outside households.
Age of consent	It is not a criminal offense under Constancian law because prevailing social custom and practice ensures swift punishment, generally by individual or communal castration and/or evisceration, on malefactors and perpetrators. It is prevailing social convention and jurisprudence that this is a mitigating factor, and local courts have generally declined to accept jurisdiction or rule on such matters.
Anti-discrimination laws in employment	Subject to contractual obligations.
Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services	Subject to Constancian and local commune custom and practice, since there are no legally enforceable rights.
Conversion therapy	Considered a criminal act and criminally prosecuteable under Article III, Sections 1 & 2 of the Criminal Code: Section 1. An individual who, unless it is approved by an Act, does any act, or attempts to do any act, with premeditation and malice, to cause the death or destruction of another individual, shall be guilty of a crime, called Murder, and liable to the punishment of death or life imprisonment, at the judgment of the court. Section 2. An individual who, involuntarily and without premeditation or malice, does an act to cause the death or dismemberment of another individual shall be guilty of a crime called Homicide, and liable to the punishment of forfeiture of liberty by imprisonment, or hard labor, at the judgment of the court, for two years for each offense, at the judgment of the court.
Anti-discrimination laws in all other areas (incl. indirect discrimination, hate speech)	Subject to Constancian and local commune custom and practice, since there are no legally enforceable rights.
Same-sex marriage	Considered a criminal act and criminally prosecuteable under Article II, Section 9 of the Criminal Code: Section 9. Any person who, with the intention of causing violence or creating public disorder or public disturbance, says, writes, prints, utters or publishes any words bringing the Mesazon or His Constancian Majesty's Government, or any court of law into contempt; to excite disaffection against the Kingdom; to excite the subjects of the Kingdom to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter established by law of the Kingdom; to promote feelings of ill-will between the ethnicities, races and classes of the subjects of the Kingdom so as to endanger the peace, order and good government of the Kingdom; or counsels or advises any person to commit any of the aforesaid acts; shall be guilty of a crime, called Subversion of the Kingdom, and liable to the punishment of suspension of civil rights and subject to forfeiture of liberty by imprisonment, or hard labor, at the judgment of the court, for one year for each offense.
Recognition of same-sex unions	Considered a criminal act and criminally prosecuteable under Article II, Section 9 of the Criminal Code: Section 9. Any person who, with the intention of causing violence or creating public disorder or public disturbance, says, writes, prints, utters or publishes any words bringing the Mesazon or His Constancian Majesty's Government, or any court of law into contempt; to excite disaffection against the Kingdom; to excite the subjects of the Kingdom to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter established by law of the Kingdom; to promote feelings of ill-will between the ethnicities, races and classes of the subjects of the Kingdom so as to endanger the peace, order and good government of the Kingdom; or counsels or advises any person to commit any of the aforesaid acts; shall be guilty of a crime, called Subversion of the Kingdom, and liable to the punishment of suspension of civil rights and subject to forfeiture of liberty by imprisonment, or hard labor, at the judgment of the court, for one year for each offense.
Gay pride activities	Considered a criminal act and criminally prosecuteable under Article II, Section 9 of the Criminal Code: Section 9. Any person who, with the intention of causing violence or creating public disorder or public disturbance, says, writes, prints, utters or publishes any words bringing the Mesazon or His Constancian Majesty's Government, or any court of law into contempt; to excite disaffection against the Kingdom; to excite the subjects of the Kingdom to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any matter established by law of the Kingdom; to promote feelings of ill-will between the ethnicities, races and classes of the subjects of the Kingdom so as to endanger the peace, order and good government of the Kingdom; or counsels or advises any person to commit any of the aforesaid acts; shall be guilty of a crime, called Subversion of the Kingdom, and liable to the punishment of suspension of civil rights and subject to forfeiture of liberty by imprisonment, or hard labor, at the judgment of the court, for one year for each offense.
Joint and step-child adoption by same-sex couples	A moot point in any event as orphans automatically become wards of the state, to be reared in government facilities for service in the Imperial Armed Forces or as the Imperial State may determine.
Gay people allowed to serve openly in the military	"Service requires Silence" – Abstinence on active service is expected as a part of military discipline for all members of the Imperial Armed Forces. Effeminate behavior by those in the Imperial Armed Forecs is considered a failing that must be drilled out of the civilian mindset.
Right to change legal gender	Gender identity is considered to arise from observable biological sex and assigned in formal records accordingly. Attempts to even do this are generally and very publicly ridiculed.
Access to IVF for lesbians	There being no governing law, this practice is socially tolerated and considered a privilege of those with rank and status in Imperial Constancian society. Discreet clinics have been known to make this service available - for a fee - for those wishing to conform without attracting undue scrutiny.
MSMs allowed to donate blood	The donation of blood is a civic virtue - subject to usual pre-screening protocols.
Third gender	Gender identity is considered to arise from observable biological sex and assigned in formal records accordingly.
Surrogacy	There being no governing law, the practice of surrogacy is socially tolerated and considered a privilege of those with rank and status in Imperial Constancian society. This is often the duty of supplicants undertaking a Life-Service Bond, although more frequently the bandaka class of unfree persons, but certain Kuls are prized for this duty due to their genetics or general characteristics.