- 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
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in Ireland have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 3 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited Ireland.
Overall
Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Same-sex marriage in Ireland is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Ireland is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Ireland is legal, no restrictions.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ireland is not legally recognized.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ireland is sexual orientation and gender identity.
In 1998, Section 6(2)(d) of the Employment Equality Act (1999) extended this protection on the basis of "sexual orientation" to other aspects of employment.
The Employment Equality Act (1998) was amended by the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (2015), which established that state-funded religious, medical or educational institutions may not discriminate on the basis of "sexual orientation", except in limited cases where “the action is objectively justified by the institution’s aim of preventing the undermining of the religious ethos of the institution”.
LGBT housing discrimination in Ireland is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Ireland is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Ireland is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Ireland is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Ireland is legal.
Conversion therapy in Ireland is not banned.
Ireland has vowed to ban conversion therapy by 2024.
Equal age of consent in Ireland is equal.