- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Hate Crime Protections
- ✖ Sexual orientation only
- 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
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Homosexual activity in Wisconsin is legal.
In order to secure enough votes to pass the legislation that repealed the ban on sodomy, legislators agreed to add to the bill that “the state does not condone or encourage any form of sexual conduct outside the institution of marriage.”
Same-sex marriage in Wisconsin is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Wisconsin is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Wisconsin is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
State IDs may be changed with a physicians note.
Gender-affirming care in Wisconsin is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Wisconsin is not legally recognized.
Hate crime protections in Wisconsin is sexual orientation only.
LGBT discrimination in Wisconsin is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Wisconsin is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Wisconsin is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Wisconsin is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin is legal.
Conversion therapy in Wisconsin is banned.
On June 1, 2021, Wisconsin governor signed an executive order prohibiting state and federal funds being used for conversion therapy which aims to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity.
State law supersedes local laws and the ban is at risk of being rendered defunct if state legislatures were to nullify the legitimacy of the scope of these laws.
A battle against conversion therapy is currently pending in the Supreme Court and it is likely to be ruled on this term with Wisconsin being the origin state of the challenge.
Equal age of consent in Wisconsin is equal.