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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- 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
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Parental approval required
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is legal.
Current status
Since Sep 25, 1791
Legal
The law of 1791 decriminalized homosexual activity, however, it does not recognize homosexuality itself.
Same-sex marriage in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is legal.
Current status
Since May 18, 2013
Legal
France passed comprehensive same-sex marriage legislation in 2013; entitling gay and lesbian people to equal marriage rights in Metropolitan France and all its overseas departments. France was the ninth European country and the thirteenth country in the world to legalise gay marriage.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In France, there are no laws restricting to discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is legal, no restrictions.
Current status
Since Sep 1, 2018
Legal, no restrictions
Individuals can legally change their gender in France. Sex reassignment surgery is state-funded. Requires court approval to change gender marker and first-name.
According to media reports, in 2010, France became the first country to remove "transsexualism" from their official list of mental illnesses.
According to media reports, in 2010, France became the first country to remove "transsexualism" from their official list of mental illnesses.
Legal, no restrictions
No surgery required since 2018. Missing non binary options on documents.
Until Jan 1, 1992
Illegal
Legal gender change is impossible
Gender-affirming care in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is legal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 1975
Legal
France allows transition care for adults and minors.
Minors can access puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and in some cases, mastectomies. Genital surgeries are however reserved for adults.
Minors can access puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and in some cases, mastectomies. Genital surgeries are however reserved for adults.
Restricted
France banned gender reassignment surgeries on people who were not intersex until 1975. However, hormones were accessible without a prescription.
Trans people would often go to Germany or Morocco to get reassignment surgeries.
Trans people would often go to Germany or Morocco to get reassignment surgeries.
Until Jan 1, 1920
Banned
Medical transition was not possible at the time.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is not legally recognized.
Current status
Since Mar 2016
Not legally recognized
Non-binary gender is not available. In 2023, the European Court of Human Rights decided in the judgment "Y. v. France" (2023) on the legal recognition of the gender of an intersex person. Specifically, on the case of a person who had been refused by French authorities the possibility to modify their gender marker to reflect the term "neutral" or "intersex". The ECHR rejected that such a decision was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, stating that, given the relevance of such a change to the otherwise binary French legal system, it was for the French state itself to reform its legislation beforehand. However, it acknowledged that future developments in Council of Europe member states could change its interpretation.
A court ruled in August 2015 that an intersex plaintiff who was designated male at birth, could use the term “neutral gender” on personal official documents. This decision was overturned by a French appeals court.
A court ruled in August 2015 that an intersex plaintiff who was designated male at birth, could use the term “neutral gender” on personal official documents. This decision was overturned by a French appeals court.
Intersex only
A court in Tours ruled in favour of an intersex plaintiff who sought to have a third gender option recognised on official identification documents.
Until Aug 20, 2015
Not legally recognized
France does not recognize non-binary people.
LGBT discrimination in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is illegal.
Current status
Since Dec 30, 2004
Illegal
Discrimination aimed toward an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity is banned in France.
LGBT housing discrimination in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jul 6, 1989
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Intersex infant surgery in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is parental approval required.
Current status
Parental approval required
Intersex people, especially minors on the decision of their parents or doctors, may undergo medical interventions not felt to make their body more typically male or female. The associations denounce these interventions as mutilations suffered by intersex childs115, as the UN Committee against Torture which recommended to France “to take legislative, administrative or other measures necessary to ensure the physical integrity of intersex persons”
Serving openly in military in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is legal.
Current status
Legal
LGBT people have never been legally banned from serving in the French army.
Conversion therapy in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is banned.
Current status
Since Jan 26, 2022
Banned
The National Assembly approved the new law unanimously, voting 142-0 on Tuesday evening.
Until Jan 26, 2022
Not banned
Not banned, although a legislation to criminalise conversion therapy is currently progressing.
Equal age of consent in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is equal.
Current status
Since Aug 4, 1982
Equal
The age of consent in France is 15 for both male-male, female-female, and male-female sex.
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