- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Military
- N/A
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in Iceland have revealed an overwhelming acceptance and support for LGBTQ+ rights among most of the population.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 10 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Iceland.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Censorship of LGBT issues in Iceland is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Iceland is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Iceland is legal.
Before the Act on Gender Autonomy No. 80/2019, gender-affirming care was still legal, but more difficult to access.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Iceland is recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Iceland is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Iceland is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Iceland is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Iceland is full ban.
Serving openly in military in Iceland is n/a.
Blood donations by MSMs in Iceland is legal.
The new law came into effect on July 1, 2025.
Conversion therapy in Iceland is banned.
Equal age of consent in Iceland is equal.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Iceland.