- Homosexuality⚢✔ Legal
- Marriage⚭✔ Civil unions
- Changing Gender✔ Legal, but requires surgery
- Adoption✖ Illegal
- Discrimination✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Military✔ Legal
- Donating BloodAmbiguous
- Age of Consent✔ Equal
- Conversion Therapy✔ Banned
History
Current status
(since 1942)
(since 1942)
Legal
Current status
(since Jan 1, 2007)
(since Jan 1, 2007)
Civil unions
Swiss Registered Partnership is a Civil Union that grants equal rights to Marriage but differs on three points: access to Fertility treatment, Adoption and facilitated Swiss naturalisation, this last one being discussed actually in Swiss parliament. ILGA states that Registered Partnership in Switzerland is «Equal/almost equal substitute nationally recognized» to Marriage.
Legal, surgery not required
Surgery no required since 2018. Missing non binary options on documents.
Current status
Legal, but requires surgery
Change of sex is legal though there are now specific laws concerning the matter. In 1993, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland stated that a change of sex should be "irreversible"; many judges interpreted it as the person had to go under surgery. In 2012, the Federal Department of Justice and Police via its Federal Office for Civil Registration released a statement about how transsexualism should be handled by cantonal Register offices. The FOCR stated that the Judges and Authorities should cease to oblige a person to go through forced sterilisation in order to have their sex change recognised. Furthermore, a person is granted to choose his or her gender according to his or her social gender and not anymore according to his or her biological gender.
Step-child adoption only
Step child and single options since 2018. Full legalization pending. It will become legal when gay marriage becomes legal.
Current status
Illegal
Article 27 of the Swiss Registered partnership Law states that the step-parent has the legal obligation to take care of the child and owns parental authority to represent the step-child.
Step-child adoption pending in Parliament.
Full joint adoption was approved by the Council of States (upper house) on March 14, 2012 but full joint adoption was later rejected by the National Council (lower house).
Step-child adoption pending in Parliament.
Full joint adoption was approved by the Council of States (upper house) on March 14, 2012 but full joint adoption was later rejected by the National Council (lower house).
Current status
(since Apr 18, 1999)
(since Apr 18, 1999)
Illegal
Current status
(since Apr 18, 1999)
(since Apr 18, 1999)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Article 8 of the Constitution
Current status
(since Apr 18, 1999)
(since Apr 18, 1999)
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Current status
(since 1992)
(since 1992)
Equal
Consensual age is Switzerland is 16 years old, unless the difference in age between the persons involved is not more than 3 years.