- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent studies in Maine indicate significant support for LGBTQ+ rights among the population.
History
Same-sex marriage in Maine is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Maine is no censorship.
Gender-affirming care in Maine is legal.
Hate crime protections in Maine is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT discrimination in Maine is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Maine is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Maine is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Maine is legal.
Similarly, second-parent adoption isn't expressly permitted in statute, but case law has been tolerant in lower court rulings.
Intersex infant surgery in Maine is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Maine is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
On February 10th, 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth filed in court a memo relating to President Trump’s executive order from the previous month.
From then until March 18th, 2025, The U.S. military prohibited transgender individuals from enlisting and ceased providing or supporting gender transition procedures for service members.
Blood donations by MSMs in Maine is legal.
Equal age of consent in Maine is equal.