- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Public opinion in Virginia appears to be somewhat divided on LGBTQ+ issues, as evidenced by recent studies.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 12 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Virginia.
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Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
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History
Homosexual activity in Virginia is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Virginia is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Virginia is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Virginia is legal, no restrictions.
Additionally, residents may self-select their gender on state IDs with no restrictions. (Unknown of policy change)
Gender-affirming care in Virginia is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Virginia is recognized.
Hate crime protections in Virginia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT discrimination in Virginia is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Virginia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Additionally, in 2014, an executive order prohibited discrimination in public jobs based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Virginia is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Virginia is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Virginia 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 Virginia is legal.
Equal age of consent in Virginia is equal.