- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✔ Legal
- DiscriminationIllegal in some contexts
- Employment DiscriminationSexual orientation only
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion TherapyAmbiguous
History
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1933)
(since Jan 1, 1933)
Legal
Current status
(since Sep 5, 2014)
(since Sep 5, 2014)
Legal, surgery not required
Denmark's historic new law allows citizens to self-determine their own gender identity without any requirements for medical or psychiatric intervention.
Until Sep 5, 2014
Legal, but requires surgery
By Danish naming-legislation, a man cannot have a woman's name, or vice versa. I am transgendered and had surgery over a decade ago in Denmark, and my legal status was changed even before I was out of the hospital. This has been the case for Denmark since sex changes became an option.
Current status
(since Mar 19, 2009)
(since Mar 19, 2009)
Legal
At the time, gay couples were allowed to have civil unions and thus was able to apply as a couple.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2017)
(since Jan 1, 2017)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
just missing constitutional discrimination laws.
Current status
(since 1987)
(since 1987)
Legal
Current status
Banned (1-year deferral)
Will become legal without any restriction in 2019.
Current status
Ambiguous
Just recently cut funding of this practice. Conversion therapy ban pending.
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