- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- 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
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Scotland is legal.
Establishes belief ceremonies, such as humanist ceremonies as a "third form of marriage", alongside religious and civil events.
Allowing transgender people to stay married, rather than having to get divorced, when obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate.
Amended guidance on the teaching of the issue in schools.
The first same-sex marriages were allowed to take place December 16, 2014.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Scotland is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Scotland is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-Affirming Care in Scotland is unknown.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Scotland is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Scotland is illegal.
The Act simplifies, strengthens and harmonises the current legislation to provide Britain with a new discrimination law which protects individuals from unfair treatment and promotes a fair and more equal society.
Also covering LGBT discrimination would be the Human Rights Act, which is a fundamental piece of the legislation underpinning the Scottish Parliament. In 2024, Scotland revised its hate crime law to explicitly include gender identity and sexual orientation.
LGBT employment discrimination in Scotland is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Scotland is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Scotland is legal.
Serving openly in military in Scotland is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Scotland is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Scotland is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Scotland is equal.