For LGBTQ+ right around the world, there were significant successes and failures in 2023.
In countries like Slovenia and Andorra, same-sex unions became legal, homosexual relationships were made legal in Mauritius and the Cook Islands, and transgender people’s self-identification laws were enacted in Spain, Finland ,and New Zealand.
While Uganda passed one of the utmost anti-gay laws in the world, imposing the death penalty for some same-sex works, transgender rights lost floor in Russia and some parts of America.
What to be on the lookout for in 2024 is listed below.
- After legislators largely passed draft legislation in December, Thailand appears to be on record to legalize same-sex wedding this year.
- Same-sex unions became formally permitted in Estonia on January 1.
- Same-sex legal unions were legalized in 2023 by other Baltic state Latvia, and the law is expected to take effect in July 2024.
- Following the submission of a bill on legal alliances in 2023, activists have also identified Ukraine as one to enjoy.
- With a final ruling due by May 2024, Namibia’s High Court will decide whether or not to decriminalize same-sex ties.
- Expenses to increase LGBTQ+ people’s access to prejudice have been introduced in Colombia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Philippines, the United States, and Venezuela. These costs may get passed in 2024.
- The second district-level certificate system in Japan may be introduced by the Aichi Prefecture in April, enabling the offspring of same-sex couples to be recognized as family. Comparable same- sex partnership certificates are now issued by several regions.
- After being introduced to parliament in 2023, Germany may discuss passing a law allowing for gender self-determination to streamline the transitional process.
- A legal gender identification regulation that was introduced in April 2023 may advance in Vietnam. There is now no legal framework in place in the nation to allow for sex equality.
- Early in January, a decision by Russia’s Supreme Court that labels LGBTQ+ campaigners and organizations as “extremists” will go into effect. Those responsible for planning or funding for actions may spend up to ten years in jail.
- Seven of the 12 federal money expenses from 2024 have provisions added by House Republicans that may limit spending on gender-affirming care for transgender individuals in the US. It comes after the fifth straight year that a record-breaking range of anti-trans bills were enacted in the nation.
- It is anticipated that Ghana will pass a strict anti-EQL+ bill in 2024 that would further criminalize same-sex relationships and impose penalties for perhaps identifying as LGBTQ+.
- Following a recommendation from the European government, the European Court of Human Rights is scheduled to hear the case of Caster Semenya, an trans Olympic champion, in May 2024. The runner claims that World Athletics, the governing body, has treated her unfairly by requesting that she clinically lower her hormone levels.
- The High Court in Malawi will decide whether the country’s laws prohibiting gay intercourse and cross-dressing are constitutional in the case of a trans person.
by Lucy Middleton, a reporter.
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