- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- Unknown
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- Unknown
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✖ Banned (less than 6-month deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Same-sex marriage in Western Australia is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Western Australia is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Western Australia is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
1. Undergone gender-affirming surgery (Article 15.b.i),
2. Adopted "the lifestyle" and have "the gender characteristics of a person of the gender to which the person has been reassigned" (Article 15.b.ii),
3. That they have received "proper counselling" in relation to their gender identity (Article 15.b.iii).
However, in 2011, the High Court of Australia held in AB and AH v. Western Australia (2011) that the surgical procedure was no longer a requirement, but some sort of physical alteration must have taken place. In this instance, HRT can be seen to fulfil this requirement. If the Board is satisfied, they will issue a "recognition certificate" that enables the applicant to request a gender marker change on the birth certificate.
1. Undergone gender-affirming surgery (Article 15.b.i),
2. Adopted "the lifestyle" and have "the gender characteristics of a person of the gender to which the person has been reassigned" (Article 15.b.ii),
3. That they have received "proper counselling" in relation to their gender identity (Article 15.b.iii).
Gender-affirming care in Western 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 Western Australia is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Western Australia is unknown.
LGBT employment discrimination in Western Australia is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Western Australia is unknown.
Same-sex adoption in Western Australia is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Western Australia is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Western Australia is legal.
(Australia is responsible for the defence of: Heard Island and McDonald Islands.)
Blood donations by MSMs in Western Australia is banned (less than 6-month deferral).
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 Western Australia is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Western Australia is equal.