In 1933, there were 7 recorded legal changes made affecting LGBT people. In the previous year, there were 5 changes made and 6 in the following year. A total of 46 legal changes were made in the 1930s.
- December 4Equal age of consent becomes equal.The age of consent in Uruguay is 15 years old regardless of the type of intercourse.
- Homosexual activity becomes legal.Homosexual activity is legal according to the Uruguay Penal Code.
- May 6Right to change legal gender becomes illegal.During the Nazi regime, transgender people were targeted repeatedly and were de facto criminalised under Paragraphs 175 and 183, which were used to prosecute people for homosexuality or cross-dressing. Previously respected "transvestite passes" which exempted trans people from Paragraph 183 were promptly ignored and revoked. Trans people would also be targeted in the Holocaust although they were often grouped as gay men, leaving the death toll of trans victims unknown. However some trans people could avoid the worst of Nazi persecution provided they were not Jewish and weren't considered homosexual (which was based on the assumption of an attraction to the birth sex they were assigned as). An example includes a transgender lesbian known as R. who was considered to be Aryan, non-homosexual and a good worker by the Nazis and got arrested in 1938 but released two years later under the assumption she would detransition. However she did not and was then forced to undergo conversion therapy until her death in 1943. After the fall of the Nazis, Germany did not grant legal gender recognition until 1980.
- Gender-affirming care becomes banned.With the rise of the Nazi regime, transgender healthcare is banned, and the Berlin Institute for Sexual Science is closed; the Nazi regime implements laws §§ 175 183, targeting LGBTQ+ individuals,
- January 1Homosexual activity becomes legal.The Faroe Islands ended criminalisation of homosexuality in 1933.
