- 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 Rhode Island is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Rhode Island is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Rhode Island is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Rhode Island is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Rhode Island is recognized.
Hate crime protections in Rhode Island is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT discrimination in Rhode Island is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Rhode Island is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Rhode Island is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Rhode Island is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Rhode Island is not banned.
In 2021, a bill was introduced to ban intersex infant surgery, and it passed the judiciary committee. However, the bill was not acted on, hence why it is still not banned.
Serving openly in military in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island is legal.
Conversion therapy in Rhode Island is banned.
Equal age of consent in Rhode Island is equal.