- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✔ Legal
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Intersex only
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Housing Discrimination
- ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- ✔ Full ban
- Military
- ✔ Legal
- Donating Blood
- ✔ Legal
- Conversion Therapy
- ✔ Banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Niedersachsen is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Niedersachsen is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Niedersachsen is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
From the age of 14, minors may make the declaration themselves with the consent of their guardians; to protect the personal rights of young people, the family court can replace the parents' decision at the request of the minor in cases where the custodians do not consent, based on the best interests of the child.
Children under 14 will need their parents or guardians to make a registry office application on their behalf.
For the declaration to be effective, the registry office must be notified of the upcoming declaration at least 3 months and at most 6 months before the declaration is made.
Outing or deadnaming one against their will in a way that caused them harm can be punished with a fine of up to €10,000.
If the gender entry is changed from "male" to another and "a case of tension or defense" arises within two months after the change, the person will still be considered male for military conscription.
People who went through the previous process can apply for monetary compensation.
In 2017, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSJ) commissioned the Humboldt University in Berlin to prepare an expert opinion on the "need for regulation and reform for transgender people".
It found that the current assessment procedure is in many cases characterized by disproportionate time and expense as well as degrading and discriminatory experiences and violates the fundamental rights of the applicants.
The non-governmental organization Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität e.V. (dgti) issues a supplemental ID card which contains one's self-chosen first names, pronouns and gender before a legal name change has taken place. It is known and accepted by German ministries, the police, and many authorities. The supplemental ID card is often a condition to correct one's name at, among others, schools, universities, banks and insurance companies. In five German states, references to the ID have been included in coronavirus ordinances and associated explanations to recognize it as an identification document, e.g., together with vaccination certificates.
It has a special status of recognition in Germany. The legal basis of the supplemental ID card is the implementation of the request of the European Parliament, communicated in the 11th legislative period of the German parliament.
When the Self-Identification law was introduced, people who went through this old process could apply for a monetary compensation.
Gender-affirming care in Niedersachsen is legal.
Condition for hormone therapy is a letter of indication from a psychotherapist,
voice therapy a letter of indication from a medical professional,
epilation of hair (laser/needle) 6 months of psychotherapy of 12/24 sessions with 50/25 minutes each (10 hours in total),
mastectomy 10 hours of psychotherapy,
genital surgeries 10 hours of psychotherapy and one year of “daily life test”,
breast augmentation 10 hours of psychotherapy, 2 years of hormone therapy, and a breast size of smaller than an A cup,
facial and vocal feminization, tracheal shave and rib section are approved in an appraisal process with the medical service if “the appearance is not yet sufficiently adjusted” after one year.
the Nazi regime implements laws §§ 175 183, targeting LGBTQ+ individuals,
The institute provided a range of endocrinologic and surgical services, including an early form of modern sex reassignment surgery in 1931.
Ludwig Levy-Lenz, the institute's primary surgeon for transgender patients, pioneered early facial feminization and masculinization procedures, alongside developing hair removal treatments utilizing the institute's X-ray facility.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Niedersachsen is intersex only.
LGBT discrimination in Niedersachsen is illegal.
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany clarified in 1 BvR 2019/16 that the general right of personality (Article 2 (1) in conjunction with Article 1 (1) of the Basic Law) protects gender identity. It also protects the gender identity of non-binary people.
Article 3 (3) of the Basic Law includes non-binary people on the protection against discrimination on ground of their gender.
LGBT employment discrimination in Niedersachsen is sexual orientation and gender identity.
LGBT housing discrimination in Niedersachsen is sexual orientation and gender identity.
Same-sex adoption in Niedersachsen is legal.
Intersex infant surgery in Niedersachsen is full ban.
Serving openly in military in Niedersachsen is legal.
Blood donations by MSMs in Niedersachsen is legal.
Accordingly, the amendment to the law obliged the German Medical Association to subsequently adapt the blood donation guidelines within four months in agreement with the Paul Ehrlich Institute, Germany’s medical regulatory body.
However, men who have sex with men outside of a monogamous relationship still face a 4 month deferral.
Conversion therapy in Niedersachsen is banned.
Providing, arranging or advertising conversion therapy is punishable by a fine up to €30,000.
Carrying out conversion therapy on a minor, or an adult whose consent was obtained without their volition, is punishable by up to a year of imprisonment or a fine.
Equal age of consent in Niedersachsen is equal.