Mid-term review of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025

Since adoption of the strategy, Slovakia has made no progress on LGBTIQ+ rights. On the contrary - an advocacy group we note regress and radicalization of politics and state governance targeting LGBTIQ+ people and increasingly transgender people.

For some years, feminists have been fighting internationally against self-ID legislation. Fears are confirmed in countries that have already introduced this legislation. Women must share their shelters with men who are women themselves. This is possible because gender identity laws abolish the gender category and replace it with a gender identity category.

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The number of comments censured shows that the LGBT policy followed by the Commission is harmful and destroys freedom of expression. Only partisan and politicised opinions are allowed: it is the end of freedom in the EU.

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We add a brief overview of the (non-)receipt of LGBTIQ people at sports venues in the Slovak Republic. The LGBTIQ sports club lotos flowers has been operating in Bratislava for over 12 years. This overview reflects the experience and observations of the club leadership, our members and the wider community.

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Significant progress has been made in the last decade at national, regional and local level in Spain in terms of rights and freedoms towards LGBTI people. Following the adoption of state law (Law 4/2023 of 28 February 2015 on real and effective equality of trans people and for guaranteeing the rights of LGBTI persons).

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As the only pharmaceutical company entirely focusing on prevention and treatment of HIV & AIDS, we warmly welcome the opportunity to comment on the mid-term implementation of the Commission's inaugural LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025.

The Foundation hopes that the European Commission’s forthcoming LGBTQ + strategy will pay particular attention to the most marginalised groups in the community, appointing them and giving them a specific approach. Transgender people and the fight against transphobia, for example, should be given particular attention to the core of the strategy.

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The strategy for equality between LGB-TQI persons leads to Queer action plans in Germany, which are completely exaggerated. For lesbian people, the queer dogma is fatal, as heterosexual men who identify themselves as lesbian are now seeking recognition by lesbian as lesbian. Women lose their shelters due to the presence of all-identified men. The strategy is fatal and is completely exaggerated.

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We can see that in Slovakia LGBT+/queer people are still facing harrasments, Stereotyping, discrimination not only from workig class people, but also “high ranked” people such as Member State of parliament, press, various media, doctors and so on.

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The CCOO Federation of Health and Socio-Health Sectors (FSS-CCOO), the first trade union organisation in the fields of work it represents and has a strong commitment to the development and advancement of LGTBI + policies in these areas, sends its comments and lines of action and improvement in relation to the European Commission’s initiative on the mid-term implementation of the LGBTIQ Strategy 2020-2025, within the…

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Equinet strongly supports the first-ever LGBTIQ Strategy. It is essential to further protect LGBTIQ+ persons in the EU against discrimination and hatred. With this policy document, the European Commission reaffirmed that equality and human rights are the core values of the European Union while ensuring that LGBTIQ+ persons have better access to healthcare, justice, education and family rights.

The Federation of Citizenship Services of the CCOO trade union supports the European Strategy for Equality of LGTBIQ 2020-2025. In the area of work that is the subject of our organisation, we consider it essential to promote inclusion and diversity in the workplace.

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Regrettably, Lithuanian social, education, and human rights policy still lacks sufficient measures to address LGBTIQ equality issues. Action Plan for Equal Opportunities 2024-2026 (28 July 2023 No A1-507 Order of the Minister for Labour and Social Security of the Republic of Lithuania on the Action Plan for Equal Opportunities 2024-2026) mentions issues related to the prevalence of discrimination against LGBTI…

The LGBT committee strongly supports the LGBTIQ equality strategy of the European Union as expressed in the four pillars, · Tackling discrimination against LGBTIQ people; · Ensuring LGBTIQ peoples safety; · Building LGBTIQ inclusive societies; and · Leading the call for LGBTIQ equality around the world.

In evaluation of the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025, the Child Friendly Justice European Network would like to refer to its 2022 Challenge Paper Towards LGBTI+ sensitive justice systems for children in Europe.

The following feedback are related to the implementation of the strategy and highlights pending issues underlying the effort to be mobilised in the second term of implementation. Gap in Knowledge: We can note an increased knowledge in lgbtiq-topics in some part of Europe (at least in Nordic countries), it is more brought up, more visibility. But there is also an increased gap in knowledge among groups.

We strongly support the objectives and actions set out in the Gender Equality Strategy, as increasing the protection and equality of queer people is of the utmost relevance across the EU, especially in view of current political and societal trends. In terms of content, we therefore fully share the ambitions of the strategy. Nevertheless, we would also like to express constructive criticism.

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Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals are at a substantially heightened risk for a plethora of poor mental and behavioral health outcomes, including HIV acquisition, depression, anxiety, as well as self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs; e.g., non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicidal behavior) compared to their cisgender peers (McNeil et al., 2017; Randall et al., 2023).

The European Union is the only major institution able to stop the drift of violence and discrimination against minority communities, not just LGBTQIA +, which is spreading in a number of countries including Italy.

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Older LGBTI+ people run the risk of facing the accumulated effects of stigmas and discrimination experienced throughout their lives based on their actual or perceived age (ageism), actual or perceived sexual orientation (homophobia, lesbophobia, biphobia), gender identity or gender expression (transphobia), or sex characteristics (interphobia) .

The impact of the different actions aimed at improving the living conditions of LGBTIQ people under the 2020-2025 equality strategy represents an important step forward for the daily reality people live in vulnerable situations in different countries around the world.

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The world of work, the area of socialisation, is not free from discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, sexual identity, gender expression, sex characteristics and family diversity. To this end, it is essential to create safe environments in the world of work, in which attitudes, prejudices and LGTBIphobic behaviours are flawed, with our key trade union assets being involved in detecting direct or indirect…

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The world of work continues to be a hostile space for LGBTI + people and, in particular, for trans people. Discrimination at work on grounds of gender orientation, identity or expression manifests itself, as in society, with varying degrees of intensity in relation to people in this group.

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Working space and work should be a safe environment for LGBTI + people and not a place of danger where the only option is invisibility. The results achieved by the European ADIM project advancing LGBT diversity management in the public and private sector show that only 28 % is openly visible as an LGTBI person in their workplace when 34 % in their private life is.

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Intersex rights are a highly relevant and topical issue, affecting the dignity, health and identity of thousands of people in the world. Intersex persons are born with sex characteristics that do not meet the typical definitions of male or female, exposing them to situations of discrimination, violence and violation of their human rights.

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Trans children should be given visibility and respect their identity and rights, as well as their protection from society and transphobic families Education is a key tool to promote inclusion and diversity, and to combat discrimination and violence. The rights of the elderly are a very relevant and current issue, which deserves to be known and respected by society as a whole.

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We believe it is important that all families with young children around the world have the same rights, support and opportunities. Our aim is to raise awareness and to start a dialogue on the situation of rainbow families in a calm and reasoned way, listening to each other's arguments, based on facts and well-supported research. Foundation for Rainbow Families Hungary

Slovakia scores long term on the lowest spectrum for LGBTI+ Equality. There was also not even after (almost) 1 year after the terrorist attack a change in the rhetoric of politicians or any increase of acceptance by the public. The EU Resolution condemning the attack was declined by the government.

It is extremely important that the EU, through its bodies, issues guidelines and strategies aimed at protecting fundamental rights and ensuring equal treatment and equality for all people, and specifically addresses issues related to the LGBTIQ+ community. Such documents are much needed in these times to give guidance to national governments and hopefully to inspire EU citizens.

I cannot stress the importance of having an LGBTIQ equality strategy for the whole of EU enough. All over the EU, LGBT+ people are experiencing backlash, hatred and limiting of rights on an unprecedented scale. From LGBT+ free zones in Poland, over book bans in Hungary and Italy stripping lesbian mothers of the parental rights over their own children to politicians trying to ban gender affirming treatment for minors…