- 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
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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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.
Right to change legal gender in Jersey is legal, no restrictions.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 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 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.
Alternately they can choose to do the surgery privately and they can do this in any country.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Jersey is 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.
LGBT employment discrimination in Jersey is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Jersey is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Intersex infant surgery in Jersey is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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