- Homosexuality
- ⚢✔ Legal
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✔ Legal
- Censorship
- ✔ No censorship
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires medical diagnosis
- Gender-Affirming Care
- N/A
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✔ Illegal
- Employment Discrimination
- Unknown
- Housing Discrimination
- Unknown
- Adoption
- ✔ Legal
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- N/A
- Donating Blood
- Unknown
- Conversion Therapy
- Unknown
- Age of Consent
- Unknown
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Homosexual activity in Tristan da Cunha is legal.
Same-sex marriage in Tristan da Cunha is legal.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Tristan da Cunha is no censorship.
Right to change legal gender in Tristan da Cunha is legal, but requires medical diagnosis.
1. Must be 18 years of age
2. Must have a gender-dysphoria diagnosis
3. Must intend "to continue to live in the acquired gender until death"
4. Has lived in the acquired gender for at least 2 years.
5. If married: must acquire the consent of the spouse.
If approved then one is granted a gender recognition certificate and may change the gender marker on legal documents.
Gender-affirming care in Tristan da Cunha is n/a.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Tristan da Cunha is not legally recognized.
In 2021, the UK government said (in response to a petition) that legal recognition of non-binary gender identity would have "complex practical consequences for other areas of the law, service provision and public life", and said that they felt existing legislation allowing people to change their legal gender went far enough. Courts have, however, ruled that people with non-binary identities are protected from discrimination by the Equality Act.
On 4 October 2023, then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak asserted his stance on gender identity in a speech at the Conservative Party conference, stating it was “common sense” that “a man is a man and a woman is a woman”.
In January 2024, the High Court in London ruled that (in the case of a US citizen trying to have their non-binary identity recognised in the UK), "We have decided that whenever the Gender Recognition Act refers to ‘gender’ it refers to a binary concept – that is, to male, or to female gender. The GRP [Gender Recognition Panel] accordingly, had and has no power to issue a gender recognition certificate to the claimant which says that they are ‘non-binary’".
The act applied to the entire UK, and Scotland's attempts to recognise non-binary genders have all failed.
LGBT discrimination in Tristan da Cunha is illegal.
LGBT employment discrimination in Tristan da Cunha is unknown.
LGBT housing discrimination in Tristan da Cunha is unknown.
Intersex infant surgery in Tristan da Cunha is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Tristan da Cunha is n/a.
Blood donations by MSMs in Tristan da Cunha is unknown.
Conversion therapy in Tristan da Cunha is unknown.
Equal age of consent in Tristan da Cunha is unknown.