- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- 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
- Varies by Region
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Missouri is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Missouri is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Missouri is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Missouri is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in Missouri is restricted.
Note: this ban expires on August 28th 2027.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Missouri is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Missouri is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT discrimination in Missouri is varies by region.
Additionally, based on 2 Missouri Supreme Court decisions, discrimination on the basis of gender identity in public accommodations and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in employment may be prohibited under sex discrimination.
LGBT employment discrimination in Missouri is sexual orientation and gender identity.
In a landmark decision, Democratic President Obama's EEOC ruled that gender identity was included under Title VII protections from the Civil Rights Act (originally written to protect people based on sex discrimination).
LGBT housing discrimination in Missouri 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 Missouri is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Missouri is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Missouri 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 Missouri is legal.
Conversion therapy in Missouri is varies by region.
with the first city being Columbia on October 7, 2019. Kansas City, St. Louis, North Kansas City, and Independence are cities that all followed suit before the end of 2021. Jackson County became the first county in Missouri to ban conversion therapy on April 19, 2023.
State law supersedes local laws and the ban is at risk of being rendered defunct if state legislatures were to nullify the legitimacy of the scope of these laws.
A bill to ban counselors from providing conversion therapy for minors was pending in January 2025.