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.

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.

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).

Article 8 of the Constitution

Code pénal suisse. Code pénal militaire (Infraction contre l'intégrité sexuelle): Modification du 21 juin 1991 pp 63-78

Legal for lesbians. Illegal for gays.

Consensual age is Switzerland is 16 years old, unless the difference in age between the persons involved is not more than 3 years.

defacto illegal. NO explicit ban.