LGBTQ rights in Guernsey

LGBTQ rights in Guernsey
LGBTQ rights in Guernsey
	Guernsey
Legal status	Legal since 1983, age of consent equal since 2012
Gender identity	Transgender people can legally change gender since 2007
Military	UK responsible for defence
Discrimination protections	Protections for gender identity ("gender reassignment") since 2005. Protections for sexual orientation effective from 1 October 2023.
Family rights
Recognition of relationships	Same-sex marriage in Guernsey since 2017;; in Alderney since 2018; and Sark since 2020
Adoption	Full adoption rights since 2017

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in the British Crown dependency of Guernsey have improved significantly in the past decades. Same-sex sexual activity for both men and women is legal in Guernsey. Same-sex marriage has been legal since 2 May 2017 in Guernsey, and since 14 June 2018 in its dependency, Alderney. Legislation approving the legalisation of same-sex marriage in its other dependency, Sark was given royal assent on 11 March 2020.^[3] Guernsey is the only part of the British Isles to have never enacted civil partnership legislation, though civil partnerships performed in the United Kingdom were recognised for succession purposes. Since April 2017, same-sex couples can adopt in the entire Bailiwick. Discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been banned since 2004. Transgender people have been able to legally change gender since 2007.

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