- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭Other type of partnership
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Single only
- DiscriminationIllegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Current status
(since May 7, 1992)
(since May 7, 1992)
Legal
Other type of partnership
Gay marriage is pending under a 2018 ruling by the EU.
Current status
(since Oct 9, 2014)
(since Oct 9, 2014)
Other type of partnership
Although a law was passed and was meant to go into effect in 2016, bureaucratic process is impeding the full implementation of the passed law.
Until Oct 8, 2014
Unrecognized, same-sex marriage and civil unions banned
Marriage is not recognized.
Current status
(since May 7, 1999)
(since May 7, 1999)
Legal, but requires surgery
The main legislation on gender change is the “General Requirements on Medical Procedures for the Change of Gender” issued by the Minister for Social Affairs (Soovahetuse arstlike
toimingute ühtsed nõuded, of 07.05.1999, no 32). This sets out the conditions for changing a person’s legal gender and allowing medical treatment for gender reassignment. It requires:
• An application to the Ministry for Social Affairs;
• The decision is made by a medical expert committee appointed by the Minister of Social Affairs;
• Certification of transsexual identity during at least two years prior to the application;
• A psychiatrist’s decision that excludes the possibility that the wish to undergo gender/sex
change is caused by psychiatric disorder;
• Compatibility of chromosomatic and gonad gender/sex certified by genetic research;
• At least two years of treatment must pass from the beginning of medical treatment. At least one year must pass from the positive response from the Minister for Social Affairs to have the right to surgically change gender. If the Person decides otherwise during that year they are not obliged to go ahead with the change of gender.
toimingute ühtsed nõuded, of 07.05.1999, no 32). This sets out the conditions for changing a person’s legal gender and allowing medical treatment for gender reassignment. It requires:
• An application to the Ministry for Social Affairs;
• The decision is made by a medical expert committee appointed by the Minister of Social Affairs;
• Certification of transsexual identity during at least two years prior to the application;
• A psychiatrist’s decision that excludes the possibility that the wish to undergo gender/sex
change is caused by psychiatric disorder;
• Compatibility of chromosomatic and gonad gender/sex certified by genetic research;
• At least two years of treatment must pass from the beginning of medical treatment. At least one year must pass from the positive response from the Minister for Social Affairs to have the right to surgically change gender. If the Person decides otherwise during that year they are not obliged to go ahead with the change of gender.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2009)
(since Jan 1, 2009)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2009)
(since Jan 1, 2009)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under Estonian law.
Current status
(since Jan 6, 2002)
(since Jan 6, 2002)
Equal
Age of consent is equal and is set at 14.
Current status
(since Sep 1, 2017)
(since Sep 1, 2017)
Not banned
Not criminalized in the country.
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