- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ No protections
- Discrimination
- Varies by Region
- 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
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent surveys in South Carolina indicate a moderate level of acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights in specific areas.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 12 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited South Carolina.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
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History
Same-sex marriage in South Carolina is legal.
In 2006, South Carolina voters passed Amendment 1, which was a constitutional amendment that limited marriage to heterosexual couples.
Censorship of LGBT issues in South Carolina is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in South Carolina is legal, but requires surgery.
Gender-affirming care in South Carolina is restricted.
Additionally, Medicaid does not provide any GAC to any transgender individuals.
Transgender individuals may face forceful and harmful detransitioning when incarcerated in the state of South Carolina unless official treatment began before the incarceration.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Carolina is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in South Carolina is no protections.
LGBT discrimination in South Carolina is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Carolina is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Carolina is varies by region.
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 South Carolina is legal.
Couples must be married to adopt jointly or for second parent adoption.
Intersex infant surgery in South Carolina is not banned.
Serving openly in military in South Carolina 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 South Carolina is legal.
Conversion therapy in South Carolina is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Carolina is equal.