- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but restricted for minors
- 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
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is legal.
Right to change legal gender in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is legal, no restrictions.
Recognition will be available for adults upon written application after a mandatory 30-day "period of reflection".
Minors under the age of 18 are not allowed to change their gender status.
The new law comes in effect on April 3rd 2023.
• Provides a medical report testifying that they permanently experience being a member of the opposite sex and that they live in the gender roles of those and that they have been sterilized or are otherwise incapable of having children
• They are an adult
• They are not married or in a registered partnership; unless the spouse or partner gives their consent in which case a marriage become a registered partnership and a registered partnership becomes a marriage
• They are a Finnish citizen or is resident in Finland
Gender-affirming care in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is legal, but restricted for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Intersex infant surgery in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is legal.
"As a result of the change, deferral period practices related to sexual behaviour will be made consistent in blood donation and will be the same for everyone regardless of sex."
Conversion therapy in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Ahvenanmaan maakunta is equal.