Template:LGBT rights table European Union
Appearance
Overall
LGBT rights in: | Same-sex sexual activity | Recognition of same-sex unions | Same-sex marriage | Adoption by same-sex couples | LGB allowed to serve openly in military? | Anti-discrimination laws concerning sexual orientation | Laws concerning gender identity/expression |
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European Union | Legal in all 28 member states.[1] | / Legal in 23/28 member states. |
/ Legal in 14/28 member states. |
/ Joint adoption legal in 14/28 member states. Step-child adoption legal in 18/28 member states. |
/ Legal in 27/28 member states. |
/ Membership requires a state to ban anti-gay discrimination in employment only. | Legal in 26/28 member states.[2] |
Member States
LGBT rights in: | Same-sex sexual activity | Recognition of same-sex unions | Same-sex marriage | Adoption by same-sex couples | LGB allowed to serve openly in military? | Anti-discrimination laws concerning sexual orientation | Laws concerning gender identity/expression |
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Austria | Legal since 1971[3] + UN decl. sign. |
Registered partnership since 2010[4] | / Legal from 1 January 2019[5] | Step-child adoption since 2013. Joint adoption since 2016.[6][7] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[8] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Gender change is legal.[10] | |
Belgium | Legal nationwide since 1975 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Legal cohabitation since 2000[11] | Legal since 2003[12][13][14] | Legal since 2006[15] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[16] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Since 2017, name changes does not require sex changes and (legal and physical) sex changes does not require sterilisation[17]. | |
Bulgaria | Legal since 1968 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Constitutionally banned since 1991[18] | LGBT individuals may adopt.[19] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Forbids discrimination based on gender identity, but requires sterilisation for change[20][21] | ||
Croatia | Legal since 1977 (As part of Yugoslavia) + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Life partnership since 2014[22] | Constitutionally banned since the 2013 referendum.[23] | / Partner-guardianship since 2014 (parental responsibility and a permanent next-of-kins relationship between a life partner and their partner's child which is registered in the child's birth certificate) | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9][24] | Act on the elimination of discrimination bans all types discrimination based on both gender identity and gender expression. Gender change is regulated by special policy issued by Ministry of Health.[25] | |
Cyprus | Legal since 1998 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Civil cohabitation since 2015[26] | (The only EU country to ban LGBT people in the military, not enforced)[27] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Forbids discrimination based on gender identity.[28] | ||
Czech Republic | Legal since 1962 (As part of Czechoslovakia) + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership since 2006[29] | (Step-child adoption pending)[30] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Legal recognition is granted and birth certificate is amended[failed verification] after reassignment surgery (with mandatory sterilisation).[31] | ||
Denmark | Legal since 1933 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership from 1989 to 2012 (Existing partnerships are still recognised.)[32] | Legal since 2012[33][34] | Step-child adoption since 1999. Joint adoption since 2010.[35] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[36] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Legal gender change and recognition possible without surgery or hormone therapy.[37] | |
Estonia | Legal since 1992 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Cohabitation agreement since 2016[38] | / Marriage performed abroad recognized since 2016[39] | / Step-child adoption since 2016. Couples where both partners are infertile may also jointly adopt non-biological children since 2016 | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Gender reassignment legal.[31] | |
Finland (includes Åland Islands) |
Legal since 1971 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership from 2002 to 2017 (Existing partnerships are still recognised.)[40] | Legal since 2017[41] | Step-child adoption since 2009. Joint adoption since 2017. |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Legal change and recognition is possible only with sterilisation.[42] | |
France | Legal nationwide since 1791 Legal in Savoy since 1792 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Civil solidarity pact since 1999[43] | Legal since 2013[44] | Legal since 2013[45] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Since 2017, sex changes no longer requires sterilisation.[46] | |
Germany | Legal in East Germany since 1968 Legal in West Berlin and West Germany since 1969 + UN decl. sign.[3][47] |
Registered life partnership from 2001 to 2017 (Existing partnerships are still recognised.)[48] | Legal since 2017[49] | Step-child adoption since 2005. Successive adoption since 2013. Joint adoption since 2017.[49] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[50][51] | Gender change is legal.[52] | |
Greece | Legal since 1951 + UN decl. sign.[3] | Civil union since 2015[53] | LGBT individuals may adopt. | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Legal since 2017.[54][55] | ||
Hungary | Legal since 1962 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership since 2009[56] | [57][58] Constitutionally banned since 2012.[59][60] |
LGBT individuals may adopt; (Joint and step-child adoption pending)[58] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | No legal recognition.[31] | |
Ireland | Male legal since 1993 Female always legal + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Civil partnership from 2011 to 2015. (Existing partnerships are still recognised.)[61] | Legal since 2015 after a constitutional referendum.[62] | Joint adoption since 2016. Stepchild adoption is not legal for any couples, but a birth parent and their partner may be eligible to be joint adopters of the child.[63][64][65][66] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[67] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[68][69][70] | Gender Recognition Act 2015 [71] | |
Italy | Legal since 1890 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Civil union since 2016[72][73] | /(Pending) [74][75][76][77][78] | / Stepchild adoption admitted by the Court of Cassation[79][80].
The Florence Court for Minors has recognised a foreign joint adoption by a gay couple[81] |
Bans some anti-gay discrimination[9] | Since 1982 legal recognition and documents can be amended to the recognised gender.[82] The Court of Cassation decided in 2015 that sterilisation is not required.[83] | |
Latvia | Legal since 1992 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Constitutionally banned since 2006[84] | LGBT individuals may adopt.[85] | Bans some anti-gay discrimination[9] | Documents are amended accordingly, no medical intervention required.[86] | ||
Lithuania | Legal since 1993 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
(Cohabitation agreement pending)[87] | Constitutionally banned since 1992[88] | Only married couples can adopt.[89] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Gender change is legal since 2003.[90] | |
Luxembourg | Legal since 1795 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered Partnership since 2004[91] | Legal since 2015[92][93] | Legal since 2015[94] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[95] | (Requires sterilisation for change[31]) | |
Malta | Legal since 1973 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Civil union since 2014[96] | Legal since 2017 | Legal since 2014 | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Since 2015.[97] | |
Netherlands | Legal since 1811 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership since 1998[98] | Legal since 2001[99] | Legal since 2001[100] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[101] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[102] | [103] | |
Poland | Legal (No laws against same-sex sexual activity has ever existed in the country) + UN decl. sign.[3] |
/ Unregistered cohabitation since 2012 (some entitlements only)[104] | Constitutionally banned since 1997.[105] | LGBT individuals may adopt, joint adoption forbidden.[106] | Bans some anti-gay discrimination[9] | ||
Portugal | Legal since 1983 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
De facto union since 2001[107][108] | Legal since 2010[109] | Legal since 2016 (+automatic co-parent recognition)[110][111][112] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination.[9] | Since 2011. All documents can be amended to the recognised gender.[113] | |
Romania | Legal since 1996 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
LGBT individuals may adopt.[114] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Legal recognition and birth certificates amended[failed verification] after reassignment surgery (sterilisation mandatory)[31] | |||
Slovakia | Legal since 1962 (As part of Czechoslovakia) + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Constitutionally banned since 2014[115] | LGBT individuals may adopt.[116] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[117][118] | (Requires sterilisation for change[31]) | ||
Slovenia | Legal since 1977 (As part of Yugoslavia) + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership since 2006[119]; Unregistered cohabitation since 2017[120] |
/ Step-child adoption since 2011[121] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Gender change is legal.[122] | ||
Spain | Legal since 1979 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
De facto union in Catalonia (1998),[123] Aragon (1999),[123] Navarre (2000),[123] Castile-La Mancha (2000),[123] Valencia (2001),[124] the Balearic Islands (2001),[125] Madrid (2001),[123] Asturias (2002),[126] Castile and León (2002),[127] Andalusia (2002),[123] the Canary Islands (2003),[123] Extremadura (2003),[123] Basque Country (2003),[123] Cantabria (2005),[128] Galicia (2008)[129] and La Rioja (2010)[130] | Legal since 2005[131] | Legal since 2005[132] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[133] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | Since 2007, all documents can be amended to the recognised gender[134] | |
Sweden | Legal since 1944 + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Registered partnership from 1995 to 2009 (Existing partnerships are still recognised.)[135] | Legal since 2009[136] | Legal since 2003[137] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[138] |
[139] | Bans all anti-gay discrimination[9] | [140] |
United Kingdom (includes Gibraltar) |
Male legal in England and Wales since 1967, in Scotland since 1981, in Northern Ireland since 1982, and in Gibraltar since 1993. Female always legal + UN decl. sign.[3] |
Civil partnership since 2005, in Gibraltar since 2012[141] | Legal in England, Wales and Scotland since 2014, in Gibraltar since 2016.[142][143] Not performed in Northern Ireland |
Legal in England and Wales since 2005, in Scotland since 2009, in Northern Ireland since 2013, and in Gibraltar since 2014[144][145] (+automatic co-parent recognition)[146] |
Bans all anti-gay discrimination[147][3] Bans some anti-gay discrimination in Gibraltar |
Gender Recognition Act 2004 Not legal in Gibraltar |
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