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- 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
- ✖ Banned (1-year deferral)
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Finnmark is legal.
Current status
Since Apr 21, 1972
Legal
Norway fully repealed Section 213 of the Norwegian Penal Code, legalizing homosexual activity.
Until Apr 21, 1972
Male illegal, female legal
Section 213 of the Norwegian Penal Code defined sexual intercourse between men to be a crime with the punishment being up to one year of imprisonment.
The law did not include homosexual activity between women.
The law did not include homosexual activity between women.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Finnmark is no censorship.
Current status
No censorship
In Norway, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.
Gender-affirming care in Finnmark is legal, but restricted for minors.
Current status
Since Mar 9, 2023
Legal, but restricted for minors
Starting in March 2023, Norway began tightly restricting gender affirming care for minors citing the "uncertainty" and "lack of comprehensible research" in the field of gender affirming care for minors, contrary to scientific consensus and most studies' findings.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Finnmark is not legally recognized.
Current status
Not legally recognized
Norway does not recognise non-binary genders. Intersex infants are assigned a gender at birth, which may include medical proceedures.
LGBT discrimination in Finnmark is illegal.
Current status
Since 1981
Illegal
Section 5 of the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination on the grounds of Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Gender Expression bans discrimination towards LGBTQ+ persons.
Norway was the first country in the world to enact a law against the discrimination of LGBT people by amending Paragraph 349a of the Norwegian Penal Code. In the same year Paragraph 135a was amended to prohibit hate speech directed at sexual minorities.
Norway was the first country in the world to enact a law against the discrimination of LGBT people by amending Paragraph 349a of the Norwegian Penal Code. In the same year Paragraph 135a was amended to prohibit hate speech directed at sexual minorities.
LGBT housing discrimination in Finnmark is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Current status
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Same-sex adoption in Finnmark is legal.
Current status
Since Jan 1, 2009
Legal
Intersex infant surgery in Finnmark is not banned.
Current status
Not banned
According to two reports published in March 2019 by the Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs, it was recommended to postpone medical interventions on intersex babies until they are able to consent, but so far there have been no further updates on these reports.
Conversion therapy in Finnmark is banned.
Current status
Since Dec 12, 2023
Banned
By a vote of 85-15, the norwegian parliament gave a final approval to a law banning conversion therapy.
Until Dec 12, 2023
Not banned
Conversion therapy is not banned in Norway. In 2022, the government introduced a proposal to ban the practice, but the adoption of a new law according to this proposal has been delayed over concerns that a total ban would infringe on the rights of those who consent to conversion therapy. The Minister of Culture and Equality, who originally proposed the ban, hopes it will come into effect in autumn 2023, despite these concerns.
Although legal, conversion therapy has been considered malpractice by the Norwegian Psychiatric Association for over 20 years. Approximately 90% of all authorized psychologists in Norway belong to this organization (as claimed by the organization itself).
Although legal, conversion therapy has been considered malpractice by the Norwegian Psychiatric Association for over 20 years. Approximately 90% of all authorized psychologists in Norway belong to this organization (as claimed by the organization itself).
Equal age of consent in Finnmark is equal.
Current status
Since Mar 1, 1972
Equal
Age of consent equal at 16 years of age.