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- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- Unknown
- 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
- ✖ Parental approval required
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Paris is legal.
Current status
Since Sep 25, 1791
Legal
The law of 1791 decriminalized homosexual activity, however, it does not recognize homosexuality itself.
Same-sex marriage in Paris is legal.
Current status
Since May 18, 2013
Legal
France passed comprehensive same-sex marriage legislation in 2013; entitling gay and lesbian people to equal marriage rights in Metropolitan France and all its overseas departments. France was the ninth European country and the thirteenth country in the world to legalise gay marriage.
Censorship of LGBT Issues in Paris is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In France, there are no laws restricting to discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Right to change legal gender in Paris is legal, no restrictions.
Current status
Since Sep 1, 2018
Legal, no restrictions
Individuals can legally change their gender in France. Sex reassignment surgery is state-funded. Requires court approval and proof.
According to media reports, in 2010, France became the first country to remove "transsexualism" from their official list of mental illnesses.
According to media reports, in 2010, France became the first country to remove "transsexualism" from their official list of mental illnesses.
Legal, no restrictions
No surgery required since 2018. Missing non binary options on documents.
Until Jan 1, 1992
Illegal
Legal gender change is impossible
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Paris is not legally recognized.
Current status
Since Mar 2016
Not legally recognized
Non-binary gender is not available. In 2023, the European Court of Human Rights decided in the judgment "Y. v. France" (2023) on the legal recognition of the gender of an intersex person. Specifically, on the case of a person who had been refused by French authorities the possibility to modify their gender marker to reflect the term "neutral" or "intersex". The ECHR rejected that such a decision was in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights, stating that, given the relevance of such a change to the otherwise binary French legal system, it was for the French state itself to reform its legislation beforehand. However, it acknowledged that future developments in Council of Europe member states could change its interpretation.
A court ruled in August 2015 that an intersex plaintiff who was designated male at birth, could use the term “neutral gender” on personal official documents. This decision was overturned by a French appeals court.
A court ruled in August 2015 that an intersex plaintiff who was designated male at birth, could use the term “neutral gender” on personal official documents. This decision was overturned by a French appeals court.
LGBT discrimination in Paris is illegal.
Current status
Since Dec 30, 2004
Illegal
LGBT housing discrimination in Paris is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Since Jul 6, 1989
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Intersex infant surgery in Paris is parental approval required.
Current status
Parental approval required
Intersex people, especially minors on the decision of their parents or doctors, may undergo medical interventions not felt to make their body more typically male or female. The associations denounce these interventions as mutilations suffered by intersex childs115, as the UN Committee against Torture which recommended to France “to take legislative, administrative or other measures necessary to ensure the physical integrity of intersex persons”
Serving openly in military in Paris is legal.
Current status
Legal
Equal age of consent in Paris is equal.
Current status
Since Aug 4, 1982
Equal
The age of consent in France is 15 for both male-male, female-female, and male-female sex.