Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ✔ Legal
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✔ Legal, no restrictions
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
    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
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    Unknown
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    ✔ Legal
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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History

Homosexual activity in Jersey

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Homosexual activity in Jersey is legal.

Current status
Since Jul 24, 1990
Legal
In 1990, Jersey legalized homosexual sex with The Sexual Offences Law (1990). The age of consent for homosexual sex and heterosexual sex wasn’t equalized until more than 16 years later.
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Same-sex marriage in Jersey

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Same-sex marriage in Jersey is legal.

Current status
Since Jul 1, 2018
Legal
The States Assembly passed a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry on 1 February 2018. Royal assent was granted on 23 May 2018, and the law took effect on 1 July.
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Jan 6, 2012–Jul 1, 2018
Civil unions (marriage rights)
After the Civil Partnership (Jersey) Law (2012) became registered by the Royal Court on January 6th, 2012, Jersey began offering civil unions. The civil unions offer many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage to same-sex couples who register for the union.
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Jersey

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Jersey is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Jersey, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Jersey

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Right to change legal gender in Jersey is legal, no restrictions.

Current status
Since May 21, 2010
Legal, no restrictions
Changing gender is legal in Jersey however the individual must acquire a gender recognition certificate from the government of Jersey. They need to provide reasoning to the court and evidence.

Gender-affirming care in Jersey

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Gender-affirming care in Jersey is legal, but restricted for minors.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2014
Legal, but restricted for minors
In Jersey, gender affirming surgery is performed off-island. If the individual decides to have the surgery through public funding, they must do it through an NHS transgender clinic in the UK, which has recently banned gender affirming treatment for children.

Alternately they can choose to do the surgery privately and they can do this in any country.
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Jersey

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Jersey is not legally recognized.

Current status
Since Jul 19, 2015
Recognized
The government of Jersey’s social security department now recognises the Mx. title for correspondence. Passports are restricted to binary gender and so are birth certificates.
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Current status
May 21, 20102026
Not legally recognized
Section 8, 2(a) and 2(b) of the Gender Recognition (Jersey) Law 2010, as amended, allows the acquisition of a binary gender (male or female). There is no further provision for acquiring a non-binary gender.
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LGBT discrimination in Jersey

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LGBT discrimination in Jersey is illegal.

Current status
Since Sep 1, 2015
Illegal
In June of 2015, Jersey passed an anti-discrimination law that protects people on the grounds of sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment and pregnancy and maternity. The law went into effect on September 1st, 2015.

LGBT employment discrimination in Jersey

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LGBT employment discrimination in Jersey is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Sep 1, 2015
Sexual orientation and gender identity
The Discrimination (Sex and Related Characteristics) (Jersey) Regulations 2015 provide protections against employment discrimination for all people regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

LGBT housing discrimination in Jersey

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LGBT housing discrimination in Jersey is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2013
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Under the discrimination law (2013) it is illegal to discriminate based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity- but there is an exception made for communal same sex accommodation settings
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Same-sex adoption in Jersey

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Same-sex adoption in Jersey is legal.

Current status
Since Jun 23, 2015
Legal
Same sex adoption was legalised for unmarried couples in 2015
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2015092…//www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=LawsAdopted%2FAdoption%28AmNo7%29Law.htm
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Jan 1, 2012–Jun 23, 2015
Married couples only
Jersey allowed same sex couples to adopt if they had a civil partnership
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2016030…//www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%5Chtm%5CROFiles%5CR&OYear2012%2FR&O-044-2012.htm
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Intersex infant surgery in Jersey

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Intersex infant surgery in Jersey is unknown.

Current status
Unknown

Serving openly in military in Jersey

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Serving openly in military in Jersey is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 12, 2000
Legal
The island's militia, the Jersey Field Squadron, is part of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers reserve unit of the British Army and follows the rules set by the UK Ministry of Defence.
Sources:
gov.je/Government/Departmen…
web.archive.org/web/2012031…//www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/units/847.aspx
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Blood donations by MSMs in Jersey

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Blood donations by MSMs in Jersey is legal.

Current status
Since Jun 14, 2021
Legal
The Channel Islands have passed a new law in keeping with the UK, saying that MSMs will not be asked if they have sex with men or not, and instead everyone donating blood will be asked the same set of questions about sexual activity regardless of sexuality and a risk assessment will be carried.
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Nov 1, 2011–Jun 14, 2021
Banned (1-year deferral)
In 2011, The Island of Jersey began allowing the donation of blood by gay men so long as they had not had sex with another man in the past year.
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Jan 1, 1985–Nov 1, 2011
Banned (indefinite deferral)
The UK banned gay men from donating blood in 1985 due to fear over the aids epidemic. This ban applied to Jersey law.

Conversion therapy in Jersey

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Conversion therapy in Jersey is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
Jersey has not banned conversion therapy. People have written to the government asking them to but no action has been taken.
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Equal age of consent in Jersey

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Equal age of consent in Jersey is equal.

Current status
Since Jul 5, 2006
Equal
Deputies in Jerseys State Assembly voted to equalize the age of consent for homosexual sex to heterosexual sex
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Jul 24, 1990–Jul 5, 2006
Unequal
When homosexuality was decriminalized, the age of consent for homosexual sex was 21. The age of consent was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1995.
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Until Jul 24, 1990
N/A
Before July 24th, 1990, the age of consent for homosexual sex was irrelevant, because it was illegal.
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