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The Indonesian Ulema Council is drafting a criminalisation bill and proposing to replace 'LGBT' with 'LGSP,' a coinage that files lesbian and gay people alongside sodomy and sexual abuse. It is a fatwa body, not a legislature — but the distinction is thinner than it looks.
A demonstration outside Parliament Buildings at 10am and an open letter to every MLA. Eóin Tennyson's private member's bill would make Northern Ireland the first jurisdiction on these islands to criminalise conversion practices.
Péter Magyar's government tabled the bill on Monday, five months after the EU's top court found the 2021 law breached the Union's founding values. It is the beginning of an unwinding — but it leaves the constitutional amendment, the adoption ban and legal gender recognition untouched.
The Swiss Federal Council says conversion practices cause 'considerable harm' and wants a uniform federal law to replace a patchwork of cantonal bans — though parliament still has to act.
Three bills that would restrict trans healthcare, documentation, and school speech cleared a first vote in March with far-right and governing-party support. Since then: silence from committee, and a drop in Portugal's rights ranking.
Ghana's parliament adjourned for recess without voting on a plan to toughen sentencing in the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, leaving the already-passed version sitting on President Mahama's desk unchanged.
Portugal spent two decades as one of Europe's quiet success stories on LGBTQ+ rights. In 2026 that reputation is being tested by three bills that would unwind its self-ID law — here's where the country actually stands.
The draft ban is trans-inclusive, carries up to five years in prison, and reaches practices arranged abroad. It's a genuine milestone — and it still has to survive consultation and a Commons vote.
On May 29 Ghana's parliament approved the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill — the legislation that makes it a crime to be LGBTQ+. President Mahama, who has said publicly he will sign it, now holds the only remaining check.
As state legislative sessions wind down, two grim data points landed within a day of each other: 40% of trans teens now live under sports bans, and nearly one in five trans Americans live where the law dictates which restroom they may use.
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.
Ghana's parliamentary committee held two days of public hearings on April 23 and 24 on the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill — the legislation that would criminalize LGBTQ+ identity itself. Here's the state of play, with President Mahama now publicly ambivalent.
President Faye signs sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ legislation that doubles maximum sentences to 10 years and criminalizes advocacy, drawing international condemnation.
Spain's new workplace equality rules require companies to actively protect LGBTQ+ employees — and businesses say implementation has been surprisingly easy.
Albania's new gender equality law includes protections for sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression — a landmark for the Balkans. But the fight to keep inclusive language in the law was anything but smooth.
In a 340-to-141 vote, the European Parliament adopted a recommendation calling for 'the full recognition of trans women as women' — a striking statement amid a global wave of anti-trans legislation.
Ghana's parliament is advancing the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, which would make it a crime to identify as LGBTQ+, to advocate for equal rights, or to attend a same-sex wedding. President Mahama has said he'll sign it.
Idaho's governor signed HB 752 into law on April 1, 2026 — a bill that makes it a misdemeanor, and then a felony, for trans people to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity.
President Murmu signed the Transgender Persons Amendment Bill 2026, which introduces medical board approval requirements and criminalizes 'compelling' someone to present as transgender — drawing condemnation from Amnesty International and India's own courts.
Three bills that would dismantle Portugal's pioneering trans rights protections passed a first parliamentary reading in March 2026, backed by the ruling coalition and far-right Chega party.
India's parliament passes an amendment to the Transgender Persons Act that removes self-perceived gender identity from the law and requires medical certification — a move critics say contradicts the Supreme Court and erases the community it claims to protect.
Kansas becomes the first US state to retroactively invalidate transgender residents' driver's licenses under a sweeping new law that also restricts restroom access and creates a private right to sue.
The Transgender Persons Amendment Bill 2026, now signed by India's president, replaces self-identification with medical certification and narrows the legal definition of who counts as transgender. Human rights groups are calling it a massive step backward.
