- 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
- Unknown
Public Opinion
According to recent survey data, Minnesota shows to be supportive of the LGBTQ+ community in comparison to other parts of the world.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 12 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Minnesota.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
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History
Same-sex marriage in Minnesota is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Minnesota is no censorship.
However, a 2025 U.S. Supreme Court ruling now requires all public schools nationwide—including in Minnesota—to allow parents to opt their children out of LGBTQ-inclusive instruction on religious grounds.
Right to change legal gender in Minnesota is legal, no restrictions.
Medical diagnosis for birth certificates is still required.
Gender-affirming care in Minnesota is legal.
Hate crime protections in Minnesota is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT discrimination in Minnesota is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Minnesota is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Minnesota is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Minnesota is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Minnesota is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Minnesota 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 Minnesota is legal.
Conversion therapy in Minnesota is banned.
Equal age of consent in Minnesota is unknown.