- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Step-child adoption only
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
History
Mar 1, 2017–-0001
Legal
Legalized marriage
Current status
(since Nov 28, 2014)
(since Nov 28, 2014)
Legal
Finland legalizes full marriage for same-sex couples.
Other type of partnership
Same-sex couples are legally able to form registered partnerships
Until Mar 1, 2017
Legal
After various referendums that asked the Finnish public on gay marriage, they finally cleared the last referendum in the 22nd of February, and gay marriage was finally allowed since this date.
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2003)
(since Jan 1, 2003)
Legal, but requires surgery
The authorities shall recognise a person as belonging to the opposite sex to that recorded on the population register, provided he/she:
• Provides a medical report testifying that he/she permanently experiences being a member of the opposite sex and that he/she lives in that gender roles and that he/she has been sterilised or is otherwise incapable of having children
• He/she is an adult
• He/she is not married or in a registered partnership; unless the spouse or partner gives their consent in which case a marriage become a registered partnership and a registered partnership becomes a marriage
• He/she is a Finnish citizen or is resident in Finland
• Provides a medical report testifying that he/she permanently experiences being a member of the opposite sex and that he/she lives in that gender roles and that he/she has been sterilised or is otherwise incapable of having children
• He/she is an adult
• He/she is not married or in a registered partnership; unless the spouse or partner gives their consent in which case a marriage become a registered partnership and a registered partnership becomes a marriage
• He/she is a Finnish citizen or is resident in Finland
Current status
(since Feb 1, 2004)
(since Feb 1, 2004)
Illegal
Current status
(since Feb 1, 2004)
(since Feb 1, 2004)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Current status
(since Feb 1, 2004)
(since Feb 1, 2004)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Current status
(since Jan 1, 1999)
(since Jan 1, 1999)
Equal
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