- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- 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
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Canarias is legal.
Since 1979
Same-sex marriage in Canarias is legal.
Since Jul 3, 2005
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Canarias is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Canarias is legal, surgery not required.
Since Dec 22, 2022
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 Canarias 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 Canarias is illegal.
Since Nov 23, 1995
LGBT employment discrimination in Canarias is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Jun 30, 2022
LGBT housing discrimination in Canarias is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Since Nov 23, 1995
Same-sex adoption in Canarias is legal.
Since Jul 3, 2005
Blood donations by MSMs in Canarias is legal.
Since Jun 11, 1976
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 Canarias is equal.
Since Nov 23, 1995