Same-sex sexual activity became legal in the state after the U. Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas on June 26, , although the state legislature has not repealed its sodomy law. Same-sex marriage has been legal in the state since January 6, Discrimination on account of sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public accommodations is outlawed following the U.
Supreme Court 's ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County. In addition, several cities and counties, comprising about 55 percent of Florida's population, have enacted anti-discrimination ordinances. Petersburg , Tallahassee and West Palm Beach , among others. Conversion therapy is also banned in a number of cities in the state, mainly in the Miami metropolitan area , but has been struck down by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
In May , several bills were signed by DeSantis, which prohibited access to hormone replacement therapy for transgender minors and created barriers to accessing hormone replacement therapy for adults, including banning insurance coverage for such treatments and requiring a physician to administer the treatment rather than a nurse practitioner.
After Florida became a territory of the United States in , the Territorial Legislature enacted laws against fornication, adultery, bigamy, and incest, as well as against "open lewdness, or Florida courts interpreted the law to prohibit all sexual activity between two men or two women. It also prohibited oral sex and anal sex between heterosexual partners.
State , struck down the "crime against nature" statute as unconstitutionally vague. The court retained the state's prohibition on sodomy by ruling that anal and oral sex could still be prosecuted under the lesser charge of "lewd and lascivious" conduct.
