Finland lgbt rights

LGBTI milestones in Finland

 Homosexuality is considered a crime in the new Penal Code and punishable by a maximum of two years’ imprisonment.

 The first LGBT rights organization in Finland, Psyke ry, is founded.

 Homosexuality is decriminalized; however its ”promotion” remains illegal.

 SETA ry is founded.

 Homosexuality is removed from the national classification of diseases.

 Seta founds the Hiv foundation and its Aids sustain centres around the country.

 Seta is transformed into a central organisation of LGBT associations. Local Seta associations are founded in different parts of Finland.

 The Trans Support Centre is founded by Seta.

 Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is prohibited.

 The Criminal Code is revised, setting the age of consent equal for same-sex and straight sexual relations. The prohibition of ”promotion of homosexuality” is finally removed.

 The law on ”registered partnership” is adopted. The law is similar to the law on marriage, with exception for the rights to take the spouse’s surname and to adopt children.

Finland’s Queer History Timeline

  • The Finnish Parliament approved the amendment to the law on transsexuality on February 1, , by a vote of –69, and the law came into effect on April 3, The mature law, (&#;Act on the Confirmation of the Sex of a Transsexual”), which had been in force since , required infertility as a condition for confirming legal gender and thus violated the human rights of trans people. The reform separated the legal confirmation of gender from medical examinations and treatments. Since then, a person can be confirmed as belonging to a gender other than the one they are registered in the population information system, if they provide a confirmation that they permanently feel they associate to the gender to be confirmed. Full age and Finnish citizenship or permanent residence in Finland were place as additional requirements for confirmation.

  • On September 15, , the Supreme Court of Finland ruled that an HIV positive person using effective medication and having unprotected sex is not a crime. This pivotal decision reduces the stigmatization of HIV in a moment wh

    LGBTQ+ RIGHTS

    Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Finland are some of the most progressive in the world. Finland is currently ranked as having the fourth-best laws and policies in the world that protect the rights of the LGBT+ community, according to ILGA-Europe advocacy group. ILGA-Europe is the leading LGBTI advocacy organisation in Europe, covering the whole of Europe and advocating professionally in all of the European institutions central to human rights and non-discrimination.

    According to the rights group, the list&#;s rankings are based on: equality and non-discrimination, family, hate crime and hate speech, legal gender recognition and bodily integrity, civil society space as well as asylum.

    LGBTQ Rights in a nutshell

    Homosexual activity: Legal since

    Same-sex marriage: Legal since

    Same-sex adoption: Step-child adoption since

    LGBT discrimination: Illegal since

    Equal age of consent: Equal since

    Learn more about LGBT rights in Equaldex.

    History of LGBTQ rights

    Homosexuality has been decriminalized since , and was declassified

    LGBTIQ Rights in Finland – Seta

    • Human rights advocacy organisation
    • Founded in
    • 50 member organisations
    • Activities all over the country
    • The activities also include social function and youth work
    • Runs the Gender Diversity & Intersex Centre of Expertise and Online Youth property Loiste
    • Works in partnership with other non-governmental organizations and authorities in Finland and internationally
    • A member of the following organizations: ILGA-Europe, Transgender Europe, IGLYO, SOSTE Finnish Federation for Social Affairs and Health, Finnish Youth Cooperation – Allianssi, Family Federation of Finland and Finnish Development NGOs Fingo. Supportive member of Finnish League for human rights and European Lesbian Community.
    • The office is located in Merihaka in Helsinki
    • Employs currently 14 people
    • The main funders are STEA and the Ministry of Education and Culture

     

    Seta – LGBTIQ Rights in Finland is a national human rights NGO. Seta aims for a society of equality and individual welfare that includes everyone regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression