Homosexuality
    ✔ Legal
    Gay Marriage
    ✔ Legal
    Censorship
    ✔ No censorship
    Changing Gender
    ✔ Legal, no restrictions
    Gender-Affirming Care
    ✔ Legal
    Non-Binary Gender Recognition
    ✖ Not legally recognized
    Discrimination
    ✔ Illegal
    Employment Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Housing Discrimination
    ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
    Adoption
    ✔ Legal
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    ✖ Not banned
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    ✖ Banned (6-month deferral)
    Conversion Therapy
    ✔ Banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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Public opinion polls in Norway have found that acceptance for LGBTQ+ individuals is prevalent.

Perception of LGBTQ+ People

Survey results from 7 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Norway.

Overall

Overall

Perceived Safety*

Feel safe being open
Absence of verbal harassment
Absence of threats and violence
*Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.

Equal Treatment

Treatment by peers
Treatment by family
Treatment at work
Treatment at school
Treatment by general public
Treatment by businesses
Treatment by law enforcement
Treatment by religious groups

Visibility & Representation

Inclusion in education
Representation in entertainment
Representation in news
Political support
Out public figures

Culture

Pride/events
Nightlife
Dating life
Interest groups and clubs

Services

Health and wellness
Gender-affirming care
Support and social services
Advocacy and legal

History

Homosexual activity in Norway

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Homosexual activity in Norway is legal.

Current status
Since Apr 21, 1972
Legal
Norway fully repealed Section 213 of the Norwegian Penal Code, legalizing homosexual activity.
Until Apr 21, 1972
Male illegal, female legal
Section 213 of the Norwegian Penal Code defined sexual intercourse between men to be a crime with the punishment being up to one year of imprisonment.
The law did not include homosexual activity between women.

Same-sex marriage in Norway

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Same-sex marriage in Norway is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2009
Legal
In 2009, same-sex couples were granted marriage rights, making Norway the sixth country in the world to recognise same-sex marriage. Norway was also the first Nordic sovereign state to approve gay marriage.
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Aug 1, 1993–Jan 1, 2009
Civil unions (marriage rights)
Norway recognized same sex registered partnerships in 1993, giving gay couples all rights of marriage with the exception of adoption rights.
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Norway

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Norway is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Norway, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Norway

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Right to change legal gender in Norway is legal, no restrictions.

Current status
Since Jul 1, 2016
Legal, no restrictions
Surgery is no longer required as of July 1st, 2016.
Until Jul 1, 2016
Legal, but requires surgery
Changing the gender status was legal, but required gender-reaffirming surgery.
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Gender-affirming care in Norway

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Gender-affirming care in Norway is legal.

Current status
Since 1996
Legal federal law
Probably since Norway adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood in 1996, trans people have the right to access gender-affirming care through the country's public health system if they are above the age of 16 and have a psychiatric diagnosis. Teens are given the right to puberty blockers after puberty has started. Treatment is not offered to non-binary patients. Surgeries are not recommended under 18, but some can get top surgery.
Jan 1, 1996–Mar 9, 2023
Legal
In 1996, Norway adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Norway

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Norway is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
Norway does not recognise non-binary genders. Intersex infants are assigned a gender at birth, which may include medical procedures.
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LGBT discrimination in Norway

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LGBT discrimination in Norway is illegal.

Current status
Since 1981
Illegal
Section 5 of the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination on the grounds of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression bans discrimination towards LGBTQ+ persons.

Norway was the first country in the world to enact a law against the discrimination of LGBT people by amending Paragraph 349a of the Norwegian Penal Code. In the same year Paragraph 135a was amended to prohibit hate speech directed at sexual minorities.
Sources:
web.archive.org/web/2016060…//www.france.qrd.org/assocs/ilga/euroletter/45.html france.qrd.org/assocs/ilga/…
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LGBT employment discrimination in Norway

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LGBT employment discrimination in Norway is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since 1981
Sexual orientation and gender identity
As of 1981, Employment discrimination was outlawed as well as LGBTQ discrimination.
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LGBT housing discrimination in Norway

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LGBT housing discrimination in Norway is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
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Same-sex adoption in Norway

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Same-sex adoption in Norway is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2009
Legal
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Intersex infant surgery in Norway

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Intersex infant surgery in Norway is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
According to two reports published in March 2019 by the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs, it was recommended to postpone medical interventions on intersex babies until they are able to consent, but so far there have been no further updates on these reports.
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Serving openly in military in Norway

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Serving openly in military in Norway is legal.

Current status
Since 2001
Legal
Norway has been allowing all genders to serve openly in the miliary since 2001
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Blood donations by MSMs in Norway

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Blood donations by MSMs in Norway is banned (6-month deferral).

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2024
Banned (6-month deferral)
From 2024, the deferral period for gay and bisexual men to donate blood will be lowered from 1 year to 6 months, the same deferral period applies to everyone.
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Apr 1, 2017–Jan 1, 2024
Banned (1-year deferral)
In 2016 the Norwegian Directorate of Health decided that from April 2017 MSMs and men who had sold themselves sexually would be accepted as blood donors, provided that there had been at least 12 months since their last sexual contact.
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Until Mar 31, 2017
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Indefinitely banned.
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Conversion therapy in Norway

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Conversion therapy in Norway is banned.

Current status
Since Dec 12, 2023
Banned
By a vote of 85-15, the norwegian parliament gave a final approval to a law banning conversion therapy.
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Until Dec 12, 2023
Not banned
Conversion therapy is not banned in Norway. In 2022, the government introduced a proposal to ban the practice, but the adoption of a new law according to this proposal has been delayed over concerns that a total ban would infringe on the rights of those who consent to conversion therapy. The Minister of Culture and Equality, who originally proposed the ban, hopes it will come into effect in autumn 2023, despite these concerns.

Although legal, conversion therapy has been considered malpractice by the Norwegian Psychiatric Association for over 20 years. Approximately 90% of all authorized psychologists in Norway belong to this organization (as claimed by the organization itself).

Equal age of consent in Norway

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Equal age of consent in Norway is equal.

Current status
Since Mar 1, 1972
Equal
Age of consent equal at 16 years of age.
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