LGBT Rights in Appenzell Innerrhoden , Switzerland

Homosexuality: ⚢
✔ Legal
Gay Marriage: ⚭
✔ Legal
Censorship: ✔ No censorship
Changing Gender: ✔ Legal, no restrictions
Gender-Affirming Care: ✔ Legal
Non-Binary Gender Recognition: ✖ Not legally recognized
Discrimination: ✖ Illegal in some contexts
Employment Discrimination: Unknown
Housing Discrimination: Unknown
Adoption: Unknown
Intersex Infant Surgery: ✖ Not banned
Military: ✔ Legal
Donating Blood: Unknown
Conversion Therapy: Unknown
Age of Consent: ✔ Equal

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History

Homosexual activity in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Homosexual activity in Appenzell Innerrhoden is legal.

Current status

Since Jun 21, 1991

Legal under federal Switzerland law

Homosexual acts were not mentioned anymore in the revision of the Penal Code of 1991. Therefore the age of consent was lowered to 16 years old for all consenting sexual intercourse.

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Same-sex marriage in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Same-sex marriage in Appenzell Innerrhoden is legal.

Current status

Since Jul 1, 2022

Legal under federal Switzerland law

Switzerland approved same-sex marriage with a national referendum.

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Censorship of LGBT issues in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Censorship of LGBT issues in Appenzell Innerrhoden is no censorship.

Current status

No censorship under federal Switzerland law

In Switzerland, there are no laws restricting the discussion or promotion of LGBTQ+ topics.

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Right to change legal gender in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Right to change legal gender in Appenzell Innerrhoden is legal, no restrictions.

Current status

Since Jan 1, 2022

Legal, no restrictions under federal Switzerland law

Change of sex is legal though there are now specific laws concerning the matter. In 1993, the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland stated that a change of sex should be "irreversible"; many judges interpreted it as the person had to go under surgery. In 2012, the Federal Department of Justice and Police via its Federal Office for Civil Registration released a statement about how transsexualism should be handled by cantonal Register offices. The FOCR stated that the Judges and Authorities should cease to oblige a person to go through forced sterilisation in order to have their sex change recognised. Furthermore, a person is granted to choose his or her gender according to his or her social gender and not anymore according to his or her biological gender.

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Mar 3, 1993–Jan 1, 2022

Legal, but requires surgery under federal Switzerland law

Until 2022, Switzerland only provided for legal gender recognition on the condition of surgery and sterilisation.

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Gender-affirming care in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Gender-affirming care in Appenzell Innerrhoden is legal.

Current status

Since 1988

Legal under federal Switzerland law

Gender affirming care is provided in Switzerland, including for minors since 1988. A restriction on it only being provided after two years of therapy was lifted in 2010.

The Swiss national council rejected a motion to ban gender affirming care for minors in 2023 saying that the legislature should decide the policies.

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Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Appenzell Innerrhoden is not legally recognized.

Current status

Not legally recognized under federal Switzerland law

Switzerland does not currently legally recognize non-binary identities.

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LGBT discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden

LGBT discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden is illegal in some contexts.

Current status

Since Jul 1, 2020

Illegal in some contexts under federal Switzerland law

Since 2020, an amendment to Article 261 bis of the Criminal Code (1937) penalises discrimination based on "sexual orientation" in the provision of goods and services. Article 261 bis of the Criminal Code was amended to include “sexual orientation” in the provision that criminalises public denigration, discrimination, or incitement to those actions, as well as the public dissemination of ideologies that aim to systematically denigrate or defame members of a protected group.

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LGBT employment discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden

LGBT employment discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden is unknown.

Current status

Unknown

LGBT housing discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden

LGBT housing discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden is unknown.

Current status

Unknown

Same-sex adoption in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Same-sex adoption in Appenzell Innerrhoden is unknown.

Current status

Unknown

Intersex infant surgery in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Intersex infant surgery in Appenzell Innerrhoden is not banned.

Current status

Not banned under federal Switzerland law

In April 2019, the Grand Council of the Canton of Geneva adopted two motions (no. 2491 and no. 2541) aimed at banning non-vital surgical procedures on intersex children at cantonal level.

In March 2022, the Federal Council was considering another motion (22.3355) which urges the Federal Council to present a bill to prohibit any irreversible and non-consensual surgical or hormonal interventions on the sexual characteristics of intersex children. This measure also allows interventions that are necessary to avoid a life-threatening situation or a danger to the child's health.

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Serving openly in military in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Serving openly in military in Appenzell Innerrhoden is legal.

Current status

Since May 17, 1992

Legal under federal Switzerland law

LGBT people have been able to serve in the Swiss military since 1992.

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Blood donations by MSMs in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Blood donations by MSMs in Appenzell Innerrhoden is unknown.

Current status

Unknown

Conversion therapy in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Conversion therapy in Appenzell Innerrhoden is unknown.

Current status

Unknown

Equal age of consent in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Equal age of consent in Appenzell Innerrhoden is equal.

Current status

Since 1992

Equal under federal Switzerland law

Consensual age is Switzerland is 16 years old, unless the difference in age between the persons involved is not more than 3 years.

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Homosexual activity in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Same-sex marriage in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Censorship of LGBT issues in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Right to change legal gender in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Gender-affirming care in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Appenzell Innerrhoden

LGBT discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden

LGBT employment discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden

LGBT housing discrimination in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Same-sex adoption in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Intersex infant surgery in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Serving openly in military in Appenzell Innerrhoden

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Conversion therapy in Appenzell Innerrhoden

Equal age of consent in Appenzell Innerrhoden

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