- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ No protections
- Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Mississippi is legal.
In 1995, those convicted of sodomy were required to register with the sheriff's office under sex offender laws; however, by this time, the enforcement of Mississippi's sodomy law had diminished.
Same-sex marriage in Mississippi is legal.
Right to change legal gender in Mississippi is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Mississippi is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Mississippi is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Mississippi is no protections.
LGBT discrimination in Mississippi is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in Mississippi is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Mississippi is varies by region.
Additionally, HUD's 2012 Equal Access Rule prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for housing programs, shelters and other HUD-funded providers.
Same-sex adoption in Mississippi is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Mississippi is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Mississippi 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 Mississippi is legal.
Conversion therapy in Mississippi is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Mississippi is equal.