- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Unrecognized
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- N/A
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Bathroom Access
- ✔ No explicit protections
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in British Virgin Islands is unrecognized.
Current status
Unrecognized
Same sex marriages are not legal, and the laws of the British Virgin Islands do not allow for recognition of same sex marriages from elsewhere, including the United Kingdom. Although the UK government encourages British Overseas Territories to adopt its equality laws it has said that it will not force a change in law.
Censorship of LGBT issues in British Virgin Islands is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In British Virgin Islands, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in British Virgin Islands is illegal.
Current status
Illegal
Changes of gender are not currently allowed by current legislation.
Gender-affirming care in British Virgin Islands is n/a.
Current status
N/A
There are no specialized local clinics, endocrinologists, or surgeons offering gender-affirming procedures, surgeries, or structured transition-related hormone therapy (GAHT) locally.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in British Virgin Islands is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Non-binary gender identities are not legally recognized in the British Virgin Islands
Hate crime protections in British Virgin Islands is sexual orientation only.
Current status
Since Jun 15, 2007
Sexual orientation only
The British Virgin Islands provides limited judicial recognition of sexual orientation-based hate crimes through specific sentencing guidelines, though comprehensive statutory hate crime laws remain otherwise undeveloped
LGBT discrimination in British Virgin Islands is illegal.
Current status
Since Jun 13, 2007
Illegal
LGBT employment discrimination in British Virgin Islands is sexual orientation only.
Current status
Since Jun 15, 2007
Sexual orientation only
Chapter 2, Article 9 of the BVI Consitution
Whereas every person in the Virgin Islands is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms
of the individual;
Whereas those fundamental rights and freedoms are enjoyed without distinction of any kind, such
as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin,
association with a national minority, property, family relations, economic status, disability, age,
birth, sexual orientation, marital or other status, subject only to prescribed limitations;
Whereas it is recognised that those fundamental rights and freedoms apply, subject to respect for
the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following,
namely—
(a) life, equality, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law;
(b) freedom of conscience, expression, movement, assembly and association; and
(c) protection for private and family life, the privacy of the home and other property and
from deprivation of property save in the public interest and on payment of fair
compensation;
Whereas every person in the Virgin Islands is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms
of the individual;
Whereas those fundamental rights and freedoms are enjoyed without distinction of any kind, such
as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin,
association with a national minority, property, family relations, economic status, disability, age,
birth, sexual orientation, marital or other status, subject only to prescribed limitations;
Whereas it is recognised that those fundamental rights and freedoms apply, subject to respect for
the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following,
namely—
(a) life, equality, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law;
(b) freedom of conscience, expression, movement, assembly and association; and
(c) protection for private and family life, the privacy of the home and other property and
from deprivation of property save in the public interest and on payment of fair
compensation;
LGBT housing discrimination in British Virgin Islands is sexual orientation only.
Current status
Since Jun 15, 2007
Sexual orientation only
Chapter 2, Article 9 of the BVI constitution
Whereas every person in the Virgin Islands is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms
of the individual;
Whereas those fundamental rights and freedoms are enjoyed without distinction of any kind, such
as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin,
association with a national minority, property, family relations, economic status, disability, age,
birth, sexual orientation, marital or other status, subject only to prescribed limitations;
Whereas it is recognised that those fundamental rights and freedoms apply, subject to respect for
the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following,
namely—
(a) life, equality, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law;
(b) freedom of conscience, expression, movement, assembly and association; and
(c) protection for private and family life, the privacy of the home and other property and
from deprivation of property save in the public interest and on payment of fair
compensation;
Whereas every person in the Virgin Islands is entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms
of the individual;
Whereas those fundamental rights and freedoms are enjoyed without distinction of any kind, such
as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic or social origin,
association with a national minority, property, family relations, economic status, disability, age,
birth, sexual orientation, marital or other status, subject only to prescribed limitations;
Whereas it is recognised that those fundamental rights and freedoms apply, subject to respect for
the rights and freedoms of others and for the public interest, to each and all of the following,
namely—
(a) life, equality, liberty, security of the person and the protection of the law;
(b) freedom of conscience, expression, movement, assembly and association; and
(c) protection for private and family life, the privacy of the home and other property and
from deprivation of property save in the public interest and on payment of fair
compensation;
Same-sex adoption in British Virgin Islands is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
Adoption laws in the British Virgin Islands do not specifically address LGBT individuals.
Intersex infant surgery in British Virgin Islands is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
There are no specific laws or official regulations banning or addressing medically unnecessary intersex infant surgeries in the British Virgin Islands.
Serving openly in military in British Virgin Islands is legal.
Current status
Legal
United Kingdom responsible for defence and thus LGBT persons allowed to serve openly.
Blood donations by MSMs in British Virgin Islands is banned (indefinite deferral).
Current status
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Blood donation is prohibited from men who have had "sexual contact with another male, even once, since 1977".
Bathroom access in British Virgin Islands is no explicit protections.
Current status
No explicit protections
There are no known protections or restrictions on transgender people accessing the bathroom matching their gender identity in the British Virgin Islands.
Conversion therapy in British Virgin Islands is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
No laws currently ban conversion therapy in the British Virgin Islands.
Equal age of consent in British Virgin Islands is equal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2001
Equal
The age of concent was equalised at the same time as homosexual activity was decriminalised.
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