- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Homosexual activity in Western Australia is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Western Australia is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Western Australia is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Western Australia is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
However, in 2011, the High Court of Australia held in AB and AH v. Western Australia (2011) that the surgical procedure is no longer a requirement, but some sort of physical alteration must have taken place. In this instance, HRT can be seen to fulfill this requirement. If the Board is satisfied, they will issue a "recognition certificate" that enables the applicant to request a gender marker change on the birth certificate.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Western Australia is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Western Australia is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Western Australia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Western Australia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Western Australia is legal.
Serving openly in military in Western Australia is legal.
Conversion therapy in Western Australia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Western Australia is equal.