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Statewide Relationship Recognition
no Licenses marriages for same-sex couples.
no Honors marriages of same-sex couples from other jurisdictions
yes Relationship recognition for same-sex couples: domestic partnership.

See Wisconsin Statutes §§ 765.001(2), 765.01, 765.04(1) and 765.30(1)(a).

  • 2009 Wisconsin legislature enacts domestic partnership law.
  • 2006 Constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages passes and becomes law.
  • 2006 Senate Joint Resolution 53 passed, places a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages on the November election ballot.
  • 2000 Anti-Marriage bill blocked. Assembly Bill 781 — Anti-marriage bill introduced to deny respect to the lawful marriages of same-sex couples out of state. Referred to Committee on Family Law. Senate Bill 401 — Similar. Referred to Judiciary and Consumer Affairs Committee.

Statewide Employment Protections
yes Private employment protections based on sexual orientation.
no Private employment protections based on gender identity.
yes Public (state) employment protections based on sexual orientation.
- Public (state) employment protections based on gender identity.

See Wis. Stat. § 106.50 (2001), § 106.52 (2001), § 111.31 (2001), § 224.77 (2001) and § 230.18 (2001): cover public employment, public accommodations, private employment, education, housing, credit, and union practices.

Statewide Parenting Laws
Who May Adopt Unmarried adult or husband and wife jointly. Wisc. Stat. § 48.82
Second Parent Adoptions Disapproved in In the Interest of Angel Lace M., 516 N.W.2d 678 (Wis. 1994)
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Related Content for region

8/5/2011
Federal Court Upholds Transgender People's Right to Access Medical Treatment in Prison
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today upheld
the right of transgender people to receive medical care while they are incarcerated. The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Wisconsin and
Lambda Legal had challenged a Wisconsin law that prohibited prison doctors from prescribing hormone treatment or sex reassignment surgery to
transgender inmates.
6/20/2011
Wisconsin Court Upholds Domestic Partner Benefits
(Madison, Wisconsin, June 20, 2011)—Today, the Circuit Court, Branch 11 in Dane County, Wisconsin, upheld as constitutional the state's Domestic Partner Registry.
3/23/2011
Lambda Legal Will Continue to Defend Wisconsin's Domestic Partnership Law
(Chicago, March 23, 2011)—In response to the news that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has terminated legal firm Cullen, Weston, Pines & Bach in the case Appling v.
2/7/2011
Federal Court Hears Arguments in Case Defending Transgender People's Right to Access Medical Treatment in Prison
Today the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a case defending the right of transgender people to receive medical care while they are incarcerated. Under Wisconsin law, prison doctors are prohibited from prescribing hormone treatment to transgender inmates. The law is being challenged by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Wisconsin.
9/22/2009
Appling v. Doyle
Lawsuit brought by an antigay legal group attempting to strip away Wisconsin's newly enacted domestic partnership registry for same-sex couples and their families.
1/27/2006
Fields v. Smith
Case challenging a Wisconsin law that bars access to hormone therapy or sex reassignment surgery for prison inmates and others in state custody
2/12/2009
Rose v. Cahee, et al.
Case brought against a doctor, clinic and health care institution after a woman was refused necessary surgery because of her HIV status.
10/17/2007
Gotti v. Raemisch
Case involving the right of transgender people in prison to receive appropriate medical treatment.

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