- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- 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
Recent surveys in Texas have revealed a mixed response towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 22 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Texas.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
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Same-sex marriage in Texas is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Texas is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Texas is illegal.
Gender-affirming care in Texas is restricted.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Texas is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Texas is sexual orientation only.
LGBT discrimination in Texas is varies by region.
LGBT employment discrimination in Texas is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Texas 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 Texas is legal.
However, Texas allows adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBT people on the basis of religion.
Intersex infant surgery in Texas is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Texas 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 Texas is legal.
Conversion therapy in Texas is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Texas is equal.