- 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
- ✖ Banned (6-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Sogn og Fjordane is legal.
The law did not include homosexual activity between women.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Sogn og Fjordane is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Sogn og Fjordane is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Sogn og Fjordane is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Sogn og Fjordane is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Sogn og Fjordane is illegal.
Norway was the first country in the world to enact a law against the discrimination of LGBT people by amending Paragraph 349a of the Norwegian Penal Code. In the same year Paragraph 135a was amended to prohibit hate speech directed at sexual minorities.
LGBT housing discrimination in Sogn og Fjordane is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Sogn og Fjordane is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Sogn og Fjordane is not banned.
Blood donations by MSMs in Sogn og Fjordane is banned (6-month deferral).
Conversion therapy in Sogn og Fjordane is banned.
Although legal, conversion therapy has been considered malpractice by the Norwegian Psychiatric Association for over 20 years. Approximately 90% of all authorized psychologists in Norway belong to this organization (as claimed by the organization itself).
Equal age of consent in Sogn og Fjordane is equal.