- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- 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
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Homosexual activity in South Dakota is legal.
Same-sex marriage in South Dakota is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in South Dakota is no censorship.
LGBT topics are not explicitly mentioned (nor illegal to be taught even if they were mentioned), but could be interpreted as being divisive.
Gender-affirming care in South Dakota is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Dakota is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in South Dakota is no protections.
LGBT discrimination in South Dakota is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Dakota is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Dakota 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 Dakota is legal.
Any single person is allowed to adopt. To adopt as a couple, the individuals must however be married. Second parent adoption is also permitted.
Agencies are however allowed to discriminate against LGBT couples on the basis of religion.
Intersex infant surgery in South Dakota is not banned.
Serving openly in military in South 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 South Dakota is legal.
Conversion therapy in South Dakota is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Dakota is equal.