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Croatia's Supreme Court has rejected conservative group Vigilare's bid to overturn a discrimination ruling over its 2020 campaign against a TV documentary about a lesbian-led family. Rainbow Families says the ruling shows where debate ends and discrimination begins.
The justices ruled unanimously that HB 1254 is constitutional under the state constitution — a legally separate question from the one the US Supreme Court answered in Skrmetti last year.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Valenzuela dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit against California's transgender sports policies, finding the state never got proper notice it risked its federal education funding.
From a Sarajevo assembly member's Facebook post to Milorad Dodik's public remarks, Bosnian courts have issued a string of rulings this year finding anti-LGBTQ speech illegal. It's slow, but it's building something rare in the region: precedent.
Two Bombay High Court petitions are asking India's tax authority to treat same-sex partners as spouses under a gift-tax exemption — a narrow, practical fight born out of the Supreme Court's 2023 refusal to legalize marriage equality.
James Dale lost at the Supreme Court in 2000 so Boy Scouts of America could keep him out for being gay. Twenty-six years later, he's using that same ruling to fight the Pentagon's pressure campaign against Scouting America's trans-inclusive policies.
A Massachusetts district court ruled the administration broke federal procedure when it tried to remove gender-affirming care from the ACA's essential health benefits — a decision with real financial stakes for transgender people buying marketplace insurance.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled that a same-sex couple formed a legally protectable domestic partnership, ordering a third party to pay damages for breaking it up. It's the latest step in a pattern: South Korean courts keep expanding protections for same-sex couples while marriage equality itself stays just out of reach.
A federal judge sided with the Trump administration on most of Minnesota's Title IX challenge, but let a funding-conditions claim move forward that could decide whether billions in federal education dollars can be used to force states to change transgender athletics policy.
The Supreme Court of Cassation approved gender marker changes for four transgender Bulgarians last month, ending a six-year freeze forced open by an EU court ruling in March.
A report launched in May finds that Namibia's LGBTQI+ community has won a remarkable run of court victories since 2021 — and that Parliament has responded by writing trans people out of two new laws.
The High Court has begun sorting who gets to argue in the case that could make Botswana only the second African country with marriage equality. The constitutional showdown is now scheduled for late October.
From Nepal's landmark marriage ruling to Japan's pending Supreme Court cases, LGBTQ+ progress across Asia is increasingly being written by judges — while legislatures stall.
Seven applicants have taken Zimbabwe to court over decades of exclusion and nonconsensual surgery on intersex children. It's a landmark case in a part of the LGBTQ+ spectrum that rarely makes headlines.
In Z.A. v. Blanche, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the Justice Department from obtaining the identities and records of transgender minors treated at Stanford's children's hospital, calling the demand part of a 'bad-faith campaign' to intimidate providers.
A landmark May ruling gave Kenyan officials 60 days to start considering gender-marker changes. As that deadline nears in mid-July, advocates are watching to see whether the state complies.
With the Supreme Court mostly siding with the administration, the real action on US transgender rights has moved to the lower courts — injunctions over prison healthcare and a class action over who gets to see trans kids' medical records.
In February, Brazil's top court threw out two more local laws criminalizing inclusive language in schools. It's the latest round in a tug-of-war between a pro-rights judiciary and a conservative legislature.
Weeks after Botswana formally deleted colonial-era anti-gay provisions from its Penal Code, a same-sex couple's challenge to the Marriage Act heads to a full bench of the High Court in July.
After the Supreme Court struck down Colorado's 2019 conversion therapy ban, state lawmakers passed a new bill that targets the practice through a different legal door — and it now awaits the governor's signature.
A federal appeals court upheld Minnesota's policy allowing transgender students to play on teams matching their gender identity, and made the broader point that Trump's anti-trans executive orders don't override state law.
From forcing Poland to recognize same-sex marriages to challenging Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law, the European Court of Justice is stepping in where elected officials won't.
