sentences:  Gay, lesbian and bisexual people have been allowed to serve openly in the military since 2002.Transgender and intersex rights in Malta are of the highest standard in the world under the "Gender Identity, Gender Expression And Sex Characteristics Act", which permits transgender people to change their legal gender without medical interventions and bans surgeries on intersex infants.Same-sex marriage has been legal since 1 September 2017, and prior to that civil unions were enacted in April 2014.