LGBT Rights in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Homosexuality: ⚢
✔ Legal
Gay Marriage: ⚭
✔ Legal
Censorship: ✔ No censorship
Changing Gender: ✔ Legal, no restrictions
Gender-Affirming Care: ✔ Legal
Non-Binary Gender Recognition: ✖ Not legally 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: N/A
Donating Blood: ✔ Legal
Conversion Therapy: ✔ Banned
Age of Consent: ✔ Equal

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History

Homosexual activity in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Homosexual activity in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is legal.

Current status

Since Sep 25, 1791

Legal

In 1791, homosexuality was decriminalised in France. This also applied in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Until Sep 25, 1791

Illegal (death penalty as punishment)

Until 1791, homosexuality was punished by burning at the stake in France, including in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Same-sex marriage in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Same-sex marriage in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is legal.

Current status

Since May 18, 2013

Legal

In 2013, same-sex marriage became legal in Saint Pierre and Miquelon under French law.

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Nov 15, 1999–May 17, 2013

Civil unions (limited rights)

Under French law, both same sex and different sex couples can get a PACS, a civil union with limited rights. PACS are still available today.

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Censorship of LGBT issues in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is no censorship.

Current status

No censorship

In Saint Pierre and Miquelon, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.

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Right to change legal gender in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Right to change legal gender in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is legal, no restrictions.

Current status

Since Jan 1, 2017

Legal, no restrictions

Under French law, trans people can change their legal gender without surgery or medical diagnosis since 2017. This law also applies to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Dec 11, 1992–Dec 31, 2016

Legal, but requires surgery

In 1992, France began providing legal gender recognition, provided that surgery be performed after two court cases. This also applied to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Gender-affirming care in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Gender-affirming care in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is legal.

Current status

Since Jan 1, 1975

Legal

Under French law, Saint Pierre and Miquelon allows gender transition care for adults and minors. Minors can access puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, and in some cases, mastectomies, but genital surgeries are reserved for adults.

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Jan 1, 1920–Jan 1, 1975

Restricted

France banned gender reassignment surgeries on people who were not intersex until 1975. However, hormones were accessible without a prescription.

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is not legally recognized.

Current status

Not legally recognized

Under French regulation.

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Hate crime protections in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Hate crime protections in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status

Sexual orientation and gender identity

Articles 132-76 and 132-77 on aggravating circumstances provide that the maximum of the custodial sentence incurred is increased when a crime or offense is preceded, accompanied or followed by words, writings, images, objects or acts of any kind that either offend against the honour or consideration of the victim or the group of persons of which the victim is a member on “the grounds of his or her membership or non-membership, actual or supposed, of a particular race, ethnic group, nation or religion”, “his or her sex, sexual orientation or actual or supposed gender identity, or establish that the acts were committed against the victim for one of these reasons”.

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LGBT discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

LGBT discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is illegal.

Current status

Since Dec 30, 2004

Illegal

Discrimination aimed toward an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity is banned in France; this also applies to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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LGBT employment discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

LGBT employment discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status

Since Aug 6, 2012

Sexual orientation and gender identity

In 2012, France extended discrimination protections in employment to include gender identity (written as sexual identity until 2016) as a protected characteristic. This also applies to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Nov 17, 2001–Aug 5, 2012

Sexual orientation only

In 2001, France passed Law 1066, which added sexual orientation as a protected characteristic from discrimination in employment. This also applied to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

However, gender identity remained unprotected until 2012.

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LGBT housing discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

LGBT housing discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status

Since Mar 27, 2014

Sexual orientation and gender identity

In 2014, gender identity became a protected characteristic from discrimination in housing in Saint Pierre and Miquelon under French federal law when France's housing law was amended to prohibit discrimination against tenants on grounds established by Article 225.1 of the Penal Code, which lists gender identity.

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Jan 18, 2002–Mar 27, 2014

Sexual orientation only

In 2002, France passed Law 73, which prohibited discrimination in housing based on sexual orientation. This also applied to Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

However, gender identity remained unprotected until 2014.

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Same-sex adoption in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Same-sex adoption in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is legal.

Current status

Since May 17, 2013

Legal

Under French law, same-sex couples have been legally able to adopt children in Saint Pierre and Miquelon since May 2013.

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Until May 17, 2013

Single only

Until 2013, joint adoptions were only provided to married heterosexual couples in Saint Pierre and Miquelon under French law. However, LGBTIQ+ singles could still adopt.

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Intersex infant surgery in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Intersex infant surgery in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is not banned.

Current status

Not banned

The French government has reportedly not attempted to protect intersex infants from genital "normalisation" surgery.

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Serving openly in military in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Serving openly in military in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is n/a.

Current status

N/A

France is in charge of defense.

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Blood donations by MSMs in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Blood donations by MSMs in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is legal.

Current status

Since Mar 16, 2022

Legal

Since 2022, blood donations by men who have sex with men have been legal with no deferral period in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Apr 2, 2020–Mar 15, 2022

Banned (6-month deferral)

In 2020, the deferral period for blood donations from MSMs was reduced to four months in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Conversion therapy in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Conversion therapy in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is banned.

Current status

Since Jan 26, 2022

Banned

In 2022, conversion therapy was banned in Saint Pierre and Miquelon under French law.

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Until Jan 25, 2022

Not banned

Until 2022, conversion therapy was legal in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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Equal age of consent in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Equal age of consent in Saint Pierre and Miquelon is equal.

Current status

Since Aug 4, 1982

Equal

In 1982, the age of consent became 15 for both heterosexual and homosexual couples in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

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89 / 100

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LGBT Rights in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Public Opinion

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Have you lived in or visited Saint Pierre and Miquelon?

History

Homosexual activity in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Same-sex marriage in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Censorship of LGBT issues in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Right to change legal gender in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Gender-affirming care in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Hate crime protections in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

LGBT discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

LGBT employment discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

LGBT housing discrimination in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Same-sex adoption in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Intersex infant surgery in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Serving openly in military in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Blood donations by MSMs in Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Conversion therapy in Saint Pierre and Miquelon