Lgbtq issues 2025

2025 in LGBT Rights

  • July 29

    Equal age of consent becomes equal.

    In July 2025, Saint Lucia decriminalized homosexuality. The age of consent is identical for homosexual and heterosexual sex.

  • Homosexual activity becomes legal.

    In July 2025, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court ruled that Sections 132 and 133 of Saint Lucia’s Criminal Code violated the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. The sections had criminalized buggery and gross indecency.

  • July 25

    Gender-affirming care becomes legal.

    In July 2025, the resolution by the Federal Council for Medicine was blocked by a federal evaluate. This allowed the previous resolution from 2020 that granted access to puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy to those above 16 years old - with parental acceptance required for those under 18 - and sex reassignment surgeries to those above 18 years old through the Brazilian public healthcare system, to travel back into influence immediately.

  • July 18

    Intersex infant surgery becomes full ban.

    In July 2025, Cuba approved the Code of Children, Adolescents, and Youths. Article 79 of the law prohibits surgical interventions on intersex minors, unless the procedure is neces
    lgbtq issues 2025

    Project 2025 Exposed

    Strip away non-discrimination policies

    – Removing terms including “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” “gender,” “abortion,” and “reproductive rights” from federal rules, regulations, contracts, grants, and legislation.

    – Restricting the application of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision, which extended workplace protections against sex discrimination to LGBTQ employees.

    – Rescinding regulations prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender persona, transgender status, and sex characteristics.

    – Defining “sex discrimination” narrowly as referring only to the “biological binary” of male and female as assigned at birth.

    Restrict health care 

    – Eliminating transgender health care in Medicare and Medicaid 

    – Opposing transgender health care or abortion access to service members using public funds

    – End anti-discrimination rules based on gender identity and sexual orientation in the Affordable Protect Act

    – Ending Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices which would negatively impact millions of  elderly Americans, particula

    The PTF examines innateness and the factors behind these threats, using real-world examples to illustrate the challenges faced by LGBTs in 2025.

    London, UK – 6 January 2025
    In 2025, LGBT+ rights are under significant threat globally, despite progress in some regions. Political repression, cultural and religious conservatism, disinformation, and economic inequality own combined to erode hard-won freedoms in many countries. The Peter Tatchell Foundation examines nature and the factors behind these threats, using real-world examples to illustrate the challenges faced by LGBT+ communities in 2025.

    Political Repression and Authoritarianism
    Many authoritarian parties and regimes contain intensified their attacks on LGBT+ rights, using them as political scapegoats to win bigoted votes and consolidate might. In Uganda, the Anti-Homosexuality Act was reintroduced with harsher penalties, including life imprisonment and even the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.” This law not only endangers the lives of LGBT+ individuals but also empowers vigilantes to persecute them with impunity. It is creature used to design an ‘enemy within’ to deflect attention from the eco

    Overview of President Trump’s Executive Actions Impacting LGBTQ+ Health

    Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions, January 20, 2025Purpose: Initial rescissions of Executive Orders and Actions issued by President Biden.

    Among these orders are several that addressed LGBTQ+ equity including “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation” (Executive Order 13988) and “Advancing Equality for Female homosexual, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gay, and Intersex Individuals” (Executive Order 14075). The instruction establishing the White Property Gender Policy Council (Executive Order 14020) and several Orders related to diversity, equity, and inclusion were also rescinded, as were orders related to nondiscrimination and equity in schools.

    Implications: This order could manage to less oversight, reduced health programing, and fewer policies protecting LGBTQ+ people, which could negatively impact access to care and well-being. Of particular note:
    • Rescinds orders that had called for LGBTQ+ people’s health equity, the national widespread health needs of Queer people, LGBTQ+ data collection, and nondiscrimination protections, including i

      What’s the context?

      Pending laws, court cases and policy decisions in several countries will protect some LGBTQ+ individuals and restrict others

      LONDON - After a year that saw both major gains and a spate of setbacks for rights, 2025 is set to be another mixed year for LGBTQ+ people, with some countries achieving marriage equality and others criminalising diverse sexualities and genders. 

      Last year progress was made through marriage equality in Greece and Thailand, the decriminalisation of queer sex in Namibia and Dominica and self-identification laws in Germany and Ecuador, which ease the process of changing legal gender.

      However, other countries experienced considerable setbacks, with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passing in Ghana, Mali, Georgia and Bulgaria.

      A grim threshold was crossed in 2024, when the number of trans and gender-diverse people who have been murdered surpassed 5,000 for the first time since a rights group began tracking such cases in 2008.

      In the United States, more than 570 bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community were tracked by rights groups.

      Here are the key things to look out for in 2025.

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