- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ No protections
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- 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
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Censorship of LGBT issues in North Dakota is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in North Dakota is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Surgery is still required for birth certificates to be changed.
Gender-affirming care in North Dakota is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in North Dakota is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in North Dakota is no protections.
LGBT discrimination in North Dakota is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in North Dakota is sexual orientation and gender identity.
No statewide protections exist, but in 2015, the North Dakota Senate passed a bill which would've introduced protections for sexual orientation and gender identity; however, the bill failed in the North Dakota House of Representatives.
LGBT housing discrimination in North Dakota is varies by region.
an individual's sexual orientation or because that individual is a transvestite"
This state does not provide any legal protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; however, Grand Forks does provide housing discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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 North Dakota is legal.
1. A husband and wife together although one or both are minors.
2. An unmarried adult.
3. The unmarried father or mother of the individual to be adopted.
4. A married individual without the other spouse joining as a petitioner, if the individual to
be adopted is not the adopting person's spouse, and if:
a. The petitioner is a stepparent of the individual to be adopted and the biological or
legal parent of the individual to be adopted consents;
b. The petitioner and the other spouse are legally separated; or
c. The failure of the other spouse to join in the petition or to consent to the adoption
is excused by the court by reason of prolonged unexplained absence,
unavailability, incapacity, or circumstances constituting an unreasonable
withholding of consent."
Intersex infant surgery in North Dakota is not banned.
Serving openly in military in North Dakota 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 North Dakota is legal.
Conversion therapy in North Dakota is banned.
This doesn't prevent religious leaders or non-licensed counselors from practicing it, however.
Equal age of consent in North Dakota is equal.