- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- Unknown
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, surgery not required
- Non-binary gender recognition
- Unknown
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (3-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- Ambiguous
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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History
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Delaware is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
Right to change legal gender in Delaware is legal, surgery not required.
Current status
Legal, surgery not required
Non binary options on all documents.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Delaware is unknown.
Current status
Unknown
LGBT discrimination in Delaware is illegal.
Current status
Since Jun 10, 2013
Since Jun 10, 2013
Illegal
People are protected from discrimination based upon both sexual orientation and gender identification.
LGBT employment discrimination in Delaware is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jun 10, 2013
Since Jun 10, 2013
Sexual orientation and gender identity
LGBT housing discrimination in Delaware is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jun 10, 2013
Since Jun 10, 2013
Sexual orientation and gender identity
This state explicitly bans housing discrimination based upon sexual orientation and gender identification.
Additionally, the Human Rights Campaign states, "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires grantees and participants of HUD programs to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity.
HUD also prohibits inquiries regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of a prospective tenant or applicant for assisted
housing in every state (March 2012)."
Additionally, the Human Rights Campaign states, "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires grantees and participants of HUD programs to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity.
HUD also prohibits inquiries regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of a prospective tenant or applicant for assisted
housing in every state (March 2012)."
Same-sex adoption in Delaware is legal.
Current status
Legal
Individuals may file for adoption regardless of sexual orientation, though married individuals must typically file jointly per 13 Del. C. §903. Second-parent adoption is legal per lower court case law.
Serving openly in military in Delaware is legal.
Current status
Since 2011
Since 2011
Legal
Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the United States, and gays and lesbians may openly serve.
Blood donations by MSMs in Delaware is banned (3-month deferral).
Current status
Since Apr 2, 2020
Since Apr 2, 2020
Banned (3-month deferral)
Blood donation centers follow the new FDA 3-month deferral guidance.
Banned (1-year deferral)
Blood donation centers followed the non-binding FDA one year deferral guidance.
Banned (1-year deferral)
Since 2016. From the FDA changing the blood donating laws.
Conversion therapy in Delaware is ambiguous.
Current status
Ambiguous
Conversion Therapy is currently legal. No law currently bans it, despite organizations such as the American Psychological Association denouncing it. Though it's not actually ambiguous (It is in fact legal), this is the best indicator of the available options.
Legal Rights
98 / 100
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