- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
Public Opinion
Surveys in North Carolina have shown mixed views towards LGBTQ+ rights and issues.
Perception of LGBTQ+ People
Survey results from 7 LGBTQ+ Equaldex users who lived in or visited North Carolina.
Overall
Perceived Safety**Survey results represent personal perceptions of safety and may not be indicative of current actual conditions.
Equal Treatment
Visibility & Representation
Culture
Services
History
Censorship of LGBT issues in North Carolina is state-enforced.
Instruction on gender identity and sexuality is forbidden from k-4, and schools are legally required to alert parents if a minor wants to change their name or pronouns at school.
Right to change legal gender in North Carolina is legal, no restrictions.
Non-binary options absent.
Gender-affirming care in North Carolina is legal.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in North Carolina is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in North Carolina is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in North Carolina is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in North Carolina 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 North Carolina is legal.
Single adoption, joint adoption by married couples and second parent adoption by married couples are legal.
Two unmarried individuals cannot adopt jointly. North Carolina does not explicitly protect LGBT individuals from discrimination.
Intersex infant surgery in North Carolina is unknown.
Serving openly in military in North Carolina is legal.
A year after the ban was lifted, Admiral Levine was sworn into being a Admiral being the first transgender woman to hold a high rank in the Navy and in Cabinet.
Blood donations by MSMs in North Carolina is legal.
Equal age of consent in North Carolina is equal.