New queer rights around the world : 2023 edition 🏳️🌈✨️🏳️⚧️
Finland : adopted a law to facilitate transition, no longer requiring sterilization or psychological evaluations
Hong Kong : ruled in favor of the change of one's gender identity without requiring surgery
Spain :
- no longer requires a medical advice to transition
- lowered the minimum age required to transition to 16 (12-13yo will need a judge's authorization and 14-15yo will need to be accompanied by their parents)
- banned genital mutilation on intersex children
- banned conversion therapies
- provided state support for lesbians and single women seeking IVF treatment
South Korea : ruled in favor of a gay couple demanding equal health insurance rights with heterosexual couples, recognizing the legal status of gay couples for the first time in the country
Slovakia : no longer requires a chirurgical procedure to transition
Cook islands : decriminalized homosexuality
Portugal : passed a law banning conversion therapies and reinforcing gender identity self-determination in schools
France : HIV positive people can now enlist in the army
Taiwan : opened adoption to same-sex couples
Mexico : issued its first non-binary passport
Cyprus : banned conversion therapies
Namibia : supreme court ruling recognizes same-sex mariages contracted in other countries
















