- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✔ Legal, no restrictions
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Legal, but banned for minors
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✖ Not banned
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Mississippi is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Mississippi is legal.
Right to change legal gender in Mississippi is legal, no restrictions.
Gender-affirming care in Mississippi is legal, but banned for minors.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Mississippi is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Mississippi is no protections.
LGBT employment discrimination in Mississippi is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Mississippi is no protections.
However, the Human Rights Campaign states, "The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires grantees and participants of HUD programs to comply with local and state non-discrimination laws that include sexual orientation and gender identity.
HUD also prohibits inquiries regarding the sexual orientation or gender identity of a prospective tenant or applicant for assisted
housing in every state (March 2012)."
Same-sex adoption in Mississippi is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Mississippi is not banned.
Serving openly in military in Mississippi is legal.
A year after the ban was lifted, Admiral Levine was sworn into being an Admiral, becoming the first transgender woman to hold a high rank in the Navy and in Cabinet.
Blood donations by MSMs in Mississippi is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Mississippi is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Mississippi is equal.