- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✖ Lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- Varies by Region
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
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Same-sex marriage in Switzerland is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Switzerland is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Switzerland is legal, no restrictions.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Switzerland is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Switzerland is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Switzerland is no protections.
LGBT housing discrimination in Switzerland is no protections.
Same-sex adoption in Switzerland is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Switzerland is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Switzerland is lesbians, gays, bisexuals permitted, transgender people banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Switzerland is legal.
Conversion therapy in Switzerland is varies by region.
Equal age of consent in Switzerland is equal.
LGBT Rights by Canton
View the LGBT laws in each individual canton of Switzerland.
- Aargau
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Appenzell Innerrhoden
- Basel-Landschaft
- Basel-Stadt
- Bern
- Fribourg
- Genève
- Glarus