- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent surveys in Spain indicate a moderate level of acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights in specific areas.
History
Homosexual activity in Spain is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Spain is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Spain is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Spain is legal, no restrictions.
If the law is approved, this point marks that reports or evidence will no longer be needed for a person to make an official registration change of their gender identity. According to the General Directorate of Sexual Diversity and Rights, this can be done "through a system of double appearance, without medical or judicial protection."
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Spain is not legally recognized.
indicates the intersex condition of the person born, the parents, by common agreement, may request that the mention of sex appear blank for a maximum period of one year. After the maximum period of one year, the mention of the. Sex will be mandatory and registration will have to be requested by the parents. There is no third sex option available in national documents.
LGBT discrimination in Spain is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Spain is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Spain is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Spain is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Spain is full ban.
Blood donations by MSMs in Spain is legal.
Information regarding blood donation by MSM during the Franco dictatorship is unknown, but was probably outlawed along with the practice of homosexuality. No specific legal texts from that historical time period address the issue.
Equal age of consent in Spain is equal.
LGBT Rights by Province
View the LGBT laws in each individual province of Spain.
- A Coruña
- Albacete
- Alicante
- Almería
- Asturias
- Badajoz
- Baleares
- Barcelona
- Burgos
- Cantabria
- Castellón
- Ciudad Real
- Cuenca
- Cáceres
- Cádiz
- Córdoba
- Girona
- Granada
- Guadalajara
- Guipúzcoa
- Huelva
- Huesca
- Jaén
- La Rioja
- Las Palmas
- León
- Lleida
- Lugo
- Madrid
- Murcia
- Málaga
- Navarra
- Ourense
- Palencia
- Pontevedra
- Salamanca
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Segovia
- Sevilla
- Soria
- Tarragona
- Teruel
- Toledo
- Valencia
- Valladolid
- Vizcaya
- Zamora
- Zaragoza
- Álava
- Ávila
- Asturias, Principado de (Autonomous Community)
- Cantabria (Autonomous Community)
- Castilla y León (Autonomous Community)
- Castilla-La Mancha (Autonomous Community)
- Catalunya (Autonomous Community)
- Extremadura (Autonomous Community)
- Galicia (Autonomous Community)
- Illes Balears (Autonomous Community)
- Madrid, Comunidad de (Autonomous Community)
- Murcia, Región de (Autonomous Community)
- Navarra, Comunidad Foral de (Autonomous Community)
- País Vasco (Autonomous Community)
- Valenciana, Comunidad (Autonomous Community)
- La Rioja (Autonomous Community)
- Andalucía ()
- Canarias ()
- Aragón ()
- Ceuta (Autonomous City)
- Melilla (Autonomous City)