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Civil and legal rights for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered citizens of Westarctica have historically been extremely progressive. In 2013, Grand Duke Travis publicly came out and acknowledged his homosexuality, which he had been hiding from a young age.
The Achaean Territory of Antarctica was the predecessor state of Westarctica. Its legal code, the Achaean Civil Code laid out common laws for the populace. In Chapter III, Acts of Marriage, the wording of the French Civil Code (on which the Achaean Code was based) was modified to be gender neutral, thereby defining marriage as any union between two persons without preference to gender.
Despite being a conservative Christian nation with Protestant Christianity as the state religion, the first constitution of Westarctica prohibited discrimination and promoted the general equality of all people. Articles 43, 44, and 45 deal with equality and special protections. These sections use gender neutral language and Article 43 specifically decrees: "All humans are equal before the law."