In 1963, there were 5 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 11 changes made and 6 in the following year. A total of 106 legal changes were made in the 1960s.
- September 14
- June 3Censorship of LGBT issues becomes imprisonment as punishment.In 1963, Hawaii amended its Penal Code to prohibit people from "wearing clothing of the opposite sex with intent to deceive other people in identifying their sex" with up to a year in prison as punishment. Commonly referred to as the "intent to deceive" law, the law in practice criminalise the gender expression of transgender people in Hawaii with several trans women being forced to wear pins saying "I AM A BOY" to avoid arrest while humiliating them in the process. The law would be repealed in 1972, effective 1973.
- April 1Homosexual activity becomes male illegal, female legal.
- January 19Gender-affirming care becomes restricted.In 1963, the first fully reimbursed gender reassignment surgery in Polish history (MTF) was performed in Warsaw. Until the first health care facility in Poland was established, which specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of transgender people, hormonal therapy and professional diagnosis of gender dysphoria were not possible.
- (date unknown)Homosexual activity becomes legal.LGBT people regardless of gender are allowed to engage in such acts once old enough according to the law. In 1953 the police was ordered to refrain from enforcing the law against homosexual acts by the Israeli government. In 1963 Israel's Highest Court decides that individuals who committed consensual homosexual acts privately couldn't be punished and even before that there are no records of punishments by civilian courts against people who committed consensual homosexual acts privately. The law was officially repealed by the Knesset ( the Israeli Parliament ) in 1988, but it's enforcement was illegal since 1963 in most cases.