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    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 only
    Adoption
    ✔ Legal
    Intersex Infant Surgery
    ✖ Not banned
    Military
    ✔ Legal
    Donating Blood
    ✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
    Conversion Therapy
    ✖ Not banned
    Age of Consent
    ✔ Equal
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History

Homosexual activity in Luxembourg

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Homosexual activity in Luxembourg is legal.

Current status
Legal
There are no legal restrictions against homosexual expression in Luxembourg.
Details
Sources:
luxembourg.angloinfo.com/in…
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Same-sex marriage in Luxembourg

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Same-sex marriage in Luxembourg is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2015
Legal
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Luxembourg since 2015, making it the last Benelux country to recognise marriage equality.
Details
Sources:
hrc.org/blog/entry/luxembou…
luxtimes.lu/archives/16281-…
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2004–Dec 31, 2014
Civil unions (marriage rights)
A same-sex marriage bill was approved by the Chamber of Deputies on 18 June 2014, and went into effect in 2015.
Details
Sources:
luxembourg.angloinfo.com/in…
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Censorship of LGBT issues in Luxembourg

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Luxembourg is no censorship.

Current status
No censorship
In Luxembourg, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
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Right to change legal gender in Luxembourg

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Right to change legal gender in Luxembourg is legal, no restrictions.

Current status
Since Sep 16, 2018
Legal, no restrictions
all acts of surgery abolished since 2018. Missing non binary options on documents.
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Sources:
tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads…
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Gender-affirming care in Luxembourg

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Gender-affirming care in Luxembourg is legal.

Current status
Since 1998
Legal
In 1998, Luxembourg adopted the ICD-10 classification, which contains codes for diagnosing transsexualism in adulthood and childhood, which authorize the initiation of medical transition.
Details
Sources:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/…
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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Luxembourg

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Luxembourg is not legally recognized.

Current status
Not legally recognized
According to the ILGA Europe, there's no recognition of non-binary gender in Luxembourg.
Details
Sources:
ilga-europe.org/files/uploa…
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LGBT discrimination in Luxembourg

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LGBT discrimination in Luxembourg is illegal.

Current status
Since Nov 28, 2006
Illegal
Article 454 to 457 of the Luxembourgian Penal code prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender.
Details
Sources:
legislationline.org/documen…
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LGBT employment discrimination in Luxembourg

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LGBT employment discrimination in Luxembourg is sexual orientation and gender identity.

Current status
Since Nov 28, 2006
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Employment discrimination is illegal
Details
Sources:
legislationline.org/documen…
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LGBT housing discrimination in Luxembourg

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LGBT housing discrimination in Luxembourg is sexual orientation only.

Current status
Since Nov 28, 2006
Sexual orientation only
Article 1 of the Law on Equality (2006) prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. Article 2 states that the protection applies to the public and private sectors with regard to housing. It does not include gender identity among its protected grounds.
Details
Sources:
legislationline.org/documen…
database.ilga.org/luxembourg-lgbti
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Same-sex adoption in Luxembourg

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Same-sex adoption in Luxembourg is legal.

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2015
Legal
After same-sex marriage was legalized, same-sex adoption was also legalized on the same terms as adoption for heterosexual couples.
Details
Sources:
independent.co.uk/news/worl…
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Until Jan 1, 2015
Illegal
Not legal
Details
Sources:
luxembourg.angloinfo.com/in…
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Intersex infant surgery in Luxembourg

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Intersex infant surgery in Luxembourg is not banned.

Current status
Not banned
In June 2021, the possibility of drafting legislation to ban medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children began to be discussed by an "inter-ministerial working group". However, in August 2023, it was declared by the Minister of Health that the task of drafting such legislation would have to fall to the next government, given that the working group had not yet agreed on the scope of the ban.
Details
Sources:
database.ilga.org/luxembourg-lgbti
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Serving openly in military in Luxembourg

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Serving openly in military in Luxembourg is legal.

Current status
Legal
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Blood donations by MSMs in Luxembourg

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Blood donations by MSMs in Luxembourg is banned (1-year deferral).

Current status
Since Jan 1, 2021
Banned (1-year deferral)
Since January of 2021, the Red Cross in Luxembourg has been accepting all donors without discrimination regarding their sexual orientation. They no longer ask donors about their lifelong sexual practices, they only ask donors about their sexual practices during the last twelve months before donation.
Details
Sources:
journal.lu/de/homoglobin
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Until Jan 1, 2021
Banned (indefinite deferral)
Before January of 2021, MSM blood donors were not permitted to donate blood in Luxembourg.
Details
Sources:
journal.lu/de/homoglobin
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Conversion therapy in Luxembourg

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Conversion therapy in Luxembourg is not banned.

Current status
Since Aug 24, 2017
Not banned
Conversion therapy ban pending. Widely condemned.
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Equal age of consent in Luxembourg

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Equal age of consent in Luxembourg is equal.

Current status
Since Aug 10, 1992
Equal
Age of consent is equal and is set at 16.
Details
Sources:
legislationline.org/documen…
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