Country Overview
Norway
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Same-sex Relations for Men Legal Throughout the Country?
Same-sex Relations for Women Legal Throughout the Country?
Legal Gender Recognition Possible?
LGBTI Orgs Able to Register?
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Norway has enacted many progressive laws on LGBTIQ issues, but challenges remain. Same-sex couples can marry and adopt. Transgender people can change their legal gender markers based on self-determination, but nonbinary gender markers are not available. The right to change legal gender markers also extends to children from the age of six in accordance with their best interests and with the consent of a legal guardian. Discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression is banned, but laws do not protect from discrimination based on sex characteristics. Nonconsensual medical interventions on intersex children also remain legal.
The great majority of people in Norway are accepting of same-sex couples, but only 51 percent of those surveyed in 2022 expressed positive attitudes toward trans people. The growing anti-gender movement has also promoted anti-trans rhetoric. Reported hate crimes against LGBTIQ people have increased, and four out of ten Norwegians reported that they witnessed anti-LGBTIQ hate speech in 2023.
*Outright research indicates that the bodily autonomy of intersex people is not respected and protected in this country.
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