- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent surveys in Chile indicate a moderate level of acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights in specific areas.
History
Homosexual activity in Chile is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Chile is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Chile is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Chile is legal, no restrictions.
In 1974, Marcia Alejandra Torres became the first person in Chile to legally change her name and gender on the birth certificate after undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Gender-Affirming Care in Chile is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Chile is recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Chile is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Chile is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Chile is legal.
Serving openly in military in Chile is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Chile is legal.
Conversion therapy in Chile is banned.
The Senate approved the bill that modifies and strengthens Law No. 20,609, which establishes measures against discrimination, adding as arbitrary discrimination any act, practice and/or medical, psychological, psychiatric treatment or of any other nature that aims to modify the sexual orientation or gender identity and expression of a person or a group of people.
LGBT Rights by Region
View the LGBT laws in each individual region of Chile.