- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Non-binary gender recognition
- ✖ Intersex only
- 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
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Homosexual activity in Schleswig-Holstein is legal.
Since Jun 11, 1994
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Schleswig-Holstein is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Schleswig-Holstein is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Since 1981
In 2017, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSJ) commissioned the Humboldt University in Berlin to prepare an expert opinion on the "need for regulation and reform for transgender people".
It found that the current assessment procedure is in many cases characterized by disproportionate time and expense as well as degrading and discriminatory experiences and violates the fundamental rights of the applicants.
The non-governmental organization Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität e.V. (dgti) issues a supplemental ID card which contains one's self-chosen first names, pronouns and gender before a legal name change has taken place. It is known and accepted by German ministries, the police, and many authorities. The supplemental ID card is often a condition to correct one's name at, among others, schools, universities, banks and insurance companies. In five German states, references to the ID have been included in coronavirus ordinances and associated explanations to recognize it as an identification document, e.g., together with vaccination certificates.
It has a special status of recognition in Germany. The legal basis of the supplemental ID card is the implementation of the request of the European Parliament, communicated in the 11th legislative period of the German parliament.
Until 2023
The proposed law will put an end to the decade-old rules that require Germans to get expert assessments and a court's authorization. Under the new rules, adults would be able to change their names and legal gender at the registry offices without any other formalities.
Germany's governing coalition had promised to abolish the "transsexual law" when it came to power in December 2021.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Schleswig-Holstein is intersex only.
Since Jan 1, 2018
Germany is introducing a law (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz) that will allow transgender and non-binary people to change their legal first names and gender identity once a year through self-identification.
If the legislation passes, transgender and non-binary people in Germany will no longer require psychological evaluations to legally change their name and gender.
In this newly presented Self-Determination Act, from the age of 14, minors may make the declaration themselves with the consent of their guardians. In order to protect the personal rights of young people, the family court can replace the parents' decision at the request of the minor in cases where the custodians do not consent, based on the best interests of the child.
Children under 14 will need their parents or guardians to make a registry office application on their behalf.
LGBT discrimination in Schleswig-Holstein is illegal.
Since Jun 29, 2006
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany clarified in 1 BvR 2019/16 that the general right of personality (Article 2 (1) in conjunction with Article 1 (1) of the Basic Law) protects gender identity. It also protects the gender identity of non-binary people.
Article 3 (3) of the Basic Law includes non-binary people on the protection against discrimination on ground of their gender.
LGBT employment discrimination in Schleswig-Holstein is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Schleswig-Holstein is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Aug 18, 2006
Same-sex adoption in Schleswig-Holstein is legal.
Since Oct 1, 2017
Serving openly in military in Schleswig-Holstein is legal.
Since 2000
Blood donations by MSMs in Schleswig-Holstein is legal.
Since Apr 1, 2023
Accordingly, the amendment to the law is obliging the German Medical Association to subsequently adapt the blood donation guidelines within four months in agreement with the Paul Ehrlich Institute, Germany’s medical regulatory body.
However, men who have sex with men outside of a monogamous relationship still face a 4 month deferral.
Conversion therapy in Schleswig-Holstein is banned.
Since Jun 24, 2020
Providing, arranging or advertising conversion therapy is punishable by a fine up to €30,000.
Carrying out conversion therapy on a minor, or an adult whose consent was obtained without their volition, is punishable by up to a year of imprisonment or a fine.
Equal age of consent in Schleswig-Holstein is equal.
Since 1988