- 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
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Homosexual activity in New Jersey is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in New Jersey is no censorship.
New Jersey actually requires schools to teach students about the LGBTQ community.
Right to change legal gender in New Jersey is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in New Jersey is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in New Jersey is recognized.
Hate crime protections in New Jersey is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT discrimination in New Jersey is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in New Jersey is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in New Jersey is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in New Jersey is not banned.
Serving openly in military in New Jersey 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 New Jersey is legal.
Conversion therapy in New Jersey is banned.
Equal age of consent in New Jersey is equal.