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Historic convictions for consensual sexual activity between men prior to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in 1993 will be eligible for a disregard under a new statutory scheme, the government has confirmed. Ministers have received the final report of the working group established to examine th

Russia is to prohibit all forms of gender transition, with allies of President Putin arguing the move is necessary to safeguard the nation against "western anti-family ideology". A bill approved in its initial reading by lawmakers in the Duma will forbid “medical interventions aimed at changin

A two-day workshop on anti-LGTBQ hate crime is to take place at University College Dublin later this month as legislators consider plans for new hate crime legislation. The event, part of a project called 'Enabling Civil Society and Academia Collaboration in the Area of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crime', will

Uganda has introduced the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality" as part of a new law criminalising LGBT+ identities, which has been condemned by human rights campaigners and governments internationally. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, which was introduced by an opposition politician and ove

Ireland is reportedly set to join legal proceedings taken by the European Commission against Hungary over its new anti-LGBT law. A law introduced in Hungary in 2021 amid protests bans any content portraying LGBT+ people from being accessed by under-18s.

UCD's alumni community will tomorrow mark International Women's Day with a webinar recalling the long road to the introduction of Ireland's gender recognition law in 2015. Dr Joe McGrath, vice-principal for equality, diversity and inclusion at UCD College of Social Sciences and Law, will host a conv

So-called conversion therapy aimed at  LGBT+ people is taking place in Ireland, according to new research which will inform Irish government plans to ban the practice. Conversion therapy purports to change or suppress a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (SOGIE) wh

The Spanish parliament has approved legislation which will see Spain join a growing number of European countries in moving to a self-declaration model of gender recognition. The new law, which yesterday cleared the upper house of the Spanish parliament by 191–60 with 91 abstentions, will scrap

The Irish and UK governments have been urged by Europe's human rights commissioner to make "swift progress" on plans to ban so-called conversion therapy for LGBT+ people. Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe commissioner for human rights, said the "insidious nature" of conversion therapies can ha

Just under 900 people have to date obtained a gender recognition certificate (GRC) under Ireland's 2015 gender recognition law, new figures reveal. The Gender Recognition Act 2015 made it possible for transgender people in Ireland to obtain legal recognition of their gender identity for the first ti

A decision to label a children's book depicting same-sex relationships as harmful to young children violated the author's right to free speech, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled.

The UK government has availed itself of section 35 of the Scotland Act to stop the Scottish Parliament's Gender Recognition Reform Bill from receiving Royal Assent. Scottish secretary Alister Jack said he would use section 35 following a review of the bill by UK government lawyers. UK ministers are

The UK government is set to narrow the list of countries and territories from which it will accept legal recognition of transgender identities. The move, which has been condemned by LGBT+ campaigners, comes amid an escalating row between the UK and Scottish governments over reform of the gender reco

The Scottish Parliament has passed legislation aiming to improve the system by which transgender people can apply for legal recognition through a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC). Once enacted, Scotland will be the first part of the UK to have a gender recognition process based on self-declarati

Northern Ireland’s High Court has refused an application for judicial review where it was alleged that a same-sex couple suffered discrimination after being denied access to a publicly-funded IVF scheme. The court found that the criteria for obtaining access to the scheme were rational and pro