- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Illegal
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Recent surveys in Florida indicate a moderate level of acceptance for LGBTQ+ rights in specific areas.
History
Homosexual activity in Florida is legal.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Florida is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Florida is illegal.
As of 2023 it is much harder to get gender affirming care as a minor and a adult, Nurse Practitioners are banned from giving HRT in all forms. The Don't Say Gay bill was expanded to include a ban of HRT to Minors and Adults. The only other way to get it is through a doctor.
Additionally, before beginning hormone therapy, adults are required to have a psychological evaluation performed by a Florida-licensed psychologist or psychiatrist and then every two years thereafter. At the end of June, the Florida Board of Medicine adopted an emergency rule giving patients already on treatment six months to adapt to the new requirements.
Gender-Affirming Care in Florida is restricted.
"requiring the
22 Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic
23 Medicine to adopt certain emergency rules within a
24 specified timeframe; requiring the boards to consider
25 specified factors in developing such rules; requiring
26 that such prescriptions and procedures for patients
27 older than 18 years of age be prescribed,
28 administered, or performed only with the voluntary and
29 informed consent of the patient"
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Florida is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Florida is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Florida is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Florida is no protections.
However, the Human Rights Campaign states, "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires grantees and participants of HUD programs to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity. HUD also prohibits inquiries regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of a prospective tenant or applicant for assisted housing in every state (March 2012)."
Same-sex adoption in Florida is legal.
Serving openly in military in Florida is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Florida is unknown.
Blood donations by MSMs in Florida is legal.
Conversion therapy in Florida is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Florida is equal.