- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✔ Recognized
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Same-sex marriage in South Australia is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in South Australia is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in South Australia is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
Gender-affirming care in South Australia is legal.
For Oestrogen or Testosterone two independent child and adolescent psychiatrists must do a standardised assessment of psychological development as well as a formal assessment of the child’s gender identification and capacity to understand the proposed treatment. A paediatric endocrinologist establishes the child’s pubertal stage, excludes disorders and discusses with the child and parents the effects and risks of puberty suppression.
For Puberty blockers a young person requires a multidisciplinary team consisting of a paediatrician, two mental health professionals (one must be a psychiatrist), and a fertility expert, to agree treatment is in the child’s best interests. It is then necessary to make an application to the Family Court for authorisation of treatment.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in South Australia is recognized.
LGBT discrimination in South Australia is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in South Australia is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in South Australia is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in South Australia is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in South Australia is not banned.
Serving openly in military in South Australia is legal.
(Australia is responsible for the defence of: Heard Island and McDonald Islands.)
Blood donations by MSMs in South Australia is legal.
In June 2023, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approved a submission from Australian Red Cross Lifeblood calling to remove most sexual activity ineligibility criteria for plasma donors.
Conversion therapy in South Australia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in South Australia is unknown.