- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Legal
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Adoption✖ Step-child adoption only
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Donating Blood✖ Banned (indefinite deferral)
- Conversion Therapy✖ Not banned
Public Opinion
"Should Society Accept Homosexuality?"
Germany ranks #2 out of 39 countries surveyed. (Source: Pew Research Center, June 4, 2013)
(11%) No
Yes (87%)
By The Numbers
60%
of Muslims in Germany approve of gay marriage
History
Current status
(since 1969)
(since 1969)
Illegal (imprisonment as punishment)
Paragraph 175 was amended during Nazi rule to create harsher penalties for homosexual behavior. Imprisonment was to range from three (3) months to ten (10) years in prison. Many homosexual men died in the Nazi concentration camps they were sent to.
Current status
(since Jan 28, 2011)
(since Jan 28, 2011)
Legal, surgery not required
The German Constitutional Court found the provision that required surgery to change one's legal gender unconstitutional.
Current status
(since Aug 18, 2006)
(since Aug 18, 2006)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Landlords are not allowed to discriminate based on gender or sexual identity.
Current status
(since 2000)
(since 2000)
Legal
Article 3 protects against unequal treatment on grounds of sexual orientation.
Current status
(since 1988)
(since 1988)
Equal
The age of consent is 14 equal for both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples in Germany.