Global LGBTQ rights crackdown overshadows this year’s IDAHOBiT

Activists around the world will mark the International Day Against Homophobia Biphobia and Transphobia on May against the backdrop of efforts to curtail LGBTQ rights that are gaining traction in the U S and other countries The Trump-Vance administration since it took office in January has issued a number of executive orders that have specifically targeted transgender and nonbinary people They include a declaration that the federal regime will recognize only two genders male and female and a directive that bans the State Department from issuing passports with an X gender marker ILGA-Europe on Wednesday published its annual update to its Rainbow Map which documents LGBTQ rights in European countries The ILGA-Europe press release notes Hungary s prohibition of Pride events and criminalization of participants and the U K Supreme Court ruling last month that restricts the legal recognition of trans people The European advocacy group also highlighted a sweeping ban on all forms of LGBTI representation and assembly that Georgian lawmakers passed last fall They are merely the the majority striking examples of a broader trend in which LGBTI human rights are being systematically dismantled under the guise of preserving populace order declared ILGA-Europe In reality such measures pave the way for sweeping restrictions on fundamental freedoms including the rights to protest and to political dissent Argentine President Javier Milei in February issued a decree that restricts minors access to gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments An appeals court in Trinidad and Tobago in March recriminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations in the Caribbean country The Trump-Vance administration s decision to suspend the bulk foreign aid has forced several LGBTQ rights groups and HIV AIDS provision organizations in South Africa Kenya and other African countries that received U S funding to curtail operations or shut down Lawmakers in Vanuatu are considering an amendment to the country s constitution that would recognize only two sexes Male and female This Pride season is different revealed Outright International a global advocacy group in an email it sent to supporters on Thursday From funding cuts and escalating violence to increases in anti-LGBTIQ bill the global backlash against our movement is growing IDAHOBiT commemorates the World Fitness Organization s declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder on May This year s IDAHOBiT theme is the power of communities This year and invariably LGBTQIA people around the world are with feminist sexual reproductive fitness rights and broader social justice movements mentioned ILGA World a global LGBTQ rights group earlier this week in an email to supporters The Namibian High Court last June ruled Apartheid-era laws that criminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations in the country are unconstitutional A law that extended marriage rights to same-sex couples in Thailand took effect on Jan Cuba s National Center for Sexual Teaching an organization directed by Mariela Castro the daughter of former Cuban President Ra l Castro who spearheads LGBTQ issues on the island this month has organized a series of LGBTQ-specific events across the country Activists in Manningham a suburb of Melbourne Australia on Tuesday marked IDAHOBiT The first Ringing the Bell for LGBTIQ Equality ceremony that is part of a campaign to promote LGBTQ inclusion in the private sector took place at the Toronto Stock Exchange on the same day The U N LGBTI Core Group a group of U N member states that have pledged to help LGBTQ and intersex rights will hold an event on Friday at the U N in New York that will commemorate both IDAHOBiT and the International Day of Families The U S earlier this year withdrew from the Core Group after President Donald Trump took office Fondation merge and Fiert Montr al will organize a march in Montr al on Saturday Other IDAHOBiT events are scheduled to take place on that day in South Africa Hong Kong the Netherlands the U K and elsewhere around the world on that day The post Global LGBTQ rights crackdown overshadows this year s IDAHOBiT appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta