- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- 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
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in France have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
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History
Homosexual activity in France is legal.
Current status
Since Sep 25, 1791
Since Sep 25, 1791
Legal
The law of 1791 decriminalized homosexual activity, however, it does not recognize homosexuality itself.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in France 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 France is legal, surgery not required.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in France is not legally recognized.
Current status
Since Mar 2016
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.
LGBT discrimination in France is illegal.
Current status
Since Dec 30, 2004
Since Dec 30, 2004
Illegal
LGBT housing discrimination in France is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jul 6, 1989
Since Jul 6, 1989
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Serving openly in military in France is legal.
Current status
Legal
Equal age of consent in France is equal.
Current status
Since Aug 4, 1982
Since Aug 4, 1982
Equal
The age of consent in France is 15 for both male-male, female-female, and male-female sex.
LGBT Rights by metropolitan department
View the LGBT laws in each individual metropolitan department of France.
- Ain
- Aisne
- Allier
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Ardennes
- Ardèche
- Ariège
- Aube
- Aude
- Aveyron
- Bas-Rhin
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Calvados
- Cantal
- Charente
- Charente-Maritime
- Cher
- Corrèze
- Corse-du-Sud
- Creuse
- Côte-d'Or
- Côtes-d'Armor
- Deux-Sèvres
- Dordogne
- Doubs
- Drôme
- Essonne
- Eure
- Eure-et-Loir
- Finistère
- Gard
- Gers
- Gironde
- Haut-Rhin
- Haute-Corse
- Haute-Garonne
- Haute-Loire
- Haute-Marne
- Haute-Savoie
- Haute-Saône
- Haute-Vienne
- Hautes-Alpes
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Hauts-de-Seine
- Hérault
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Indre
- Indre-et-Loire
- Isère
- Jura
- Landes
- Loir-et-Cher
- Loire
- Loire-Atlantique
- Loiret
- Lot
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Lozère
- Maine-et-Loire
- Manche
- Marne
- Mayenne
- Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Meuse
- Morbihan
- Moselle
- Nièvre
- Nord
- Oise
- Orne
- Paris
- Pas-de-Calais
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Rhône
- Sarthe
- Savoie
- Saône-et-Loire
- Seine-et-Marne
- Seine-Maritime
- Seine-Saint-Denis
- Somme
- Tarn
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Territoire de Belfort
- Val-d'Oise
- Val-de-Marne
- Var
- Vaucluse
- Vendée
- Vienne
- Vosges
- Yonne
- Yvelines
- Alsace (Metropolitan regions)
- Aquitaine (Metropolitan regions)
- Auvergne (Metropolitan regions)
- Basse-Normandie (Metropolitan regions)
- Bourgogne (Metropolitan regions)
- Bretagne (Metropolitan regions)
- Centre (Metropolitan regions)
- Champagne-Ardenne (Metropolitan regions)
- Corse (Metropolitan regions)
- Franche-Comté (Metropolitan regions)
- Haute-Normandie (Metropolitan regions)
- Languedoc-Roussillon (Metropolitan regions)
- Limousin (Metropolitan regions)
- Lorraine (Metropolitan regions)
- Midi-Pyrénées (Metropolitan regions)
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais (Metropolitan regions)
- Pays-de-la-Loire (Metropolitan regions)
- Picardie (Metropolitan regions)
- Poitou-Charentes (Metropolitan regions)
- Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (Metropolitan regions)
- Rhône-Alpes (Metropolitan regions)
- Île-de-France (Metropolitan regions)
- Guadeloupe (see also separate entry under GP) (overseas regions)
- Guyane (française) (see also separate entry under GF) (overseas regions)
- La Réunion (see also separate entry under RE) (overseas regions)
- Martinique (see also separate entry under MQ) (overseas regions)
- Nouvelle-Calédonie (see also separate entry under NC) (overseas territory)
- Polynésie française (see also separate entry under PF) (overseas territory)
- Terres Australes Françaises (see also separate entry under TF) (overseas territory)
- Wallis et Futuna (see also separate entry under WF) (overseas territory)
- Saint-Barthélemy (see also separate entry under BL) (Overseas territorial collectivity)
- Saint-Martin (see also separate entry under MF) (Overseas territorial collectivity)
- Mayotte (see also separate entry under YT) (territorial collectivity)
- Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon (see also separate entry under PM) (territorial collectivity)
- Clipperton (Dependency)
- French Southern Territories (Territory)
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