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On 30 September 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from LGBT rights by country or territory to LGBTQ rights by country or territory. The result of the discussion was moved.

Reduced trans rights in the UK

In a recent court ruling (April, I think), the UK's High Court decided that the main provisions of the Gender Recognition Act 2004 no longer apply, with the result that trans women are now legally men, trans men are legally women, and non-binary people have no legal existence whatsoever, meaning they could eventually have zero rights in everyday life. Please could someone update the article to reflect this fact? 80.193.98.150 (talk) 14:01, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, because that's not what was decided. You seriously need to back up your claim with reliable sources. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:40, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What that ruling decided was that gender discrimination protection under the equality act do not apply to trans people based on their gender but rather their sex asigned at birth, I do however agree that highlighting this could be worthwhile. JBoyd2007 (talk) 06:52, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. Historyday01 (talk) 13:20, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also completely agree. Elcalebo (talk) 14:23, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request 3 Aug 2025

Spelling error - under Eritrea's same sex sexual activity category, 'vigilate' should be 'vigilante' Rinzenn (talk) 05:18, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The error was actually at Template:LGBT rights table Africa, which isn't protected, but  Done anyway. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:50, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

wrong information about Palestine (vandalism?)

Palestine should not be in this sentence:

"The 2023 Equaldex Equality Index ranks the Nordic countries, Chile, Uruguay, Canada, the Benelux countries, Spain, Andorra, and Malta among the best for LGBTQ rights. The index ranks Nigeria, Yemen, Brunei, Afghanistan, Somalia, Mauritania, Palestine, and Iran among the worst."

The sources (notes 18 and 19) do not support this claim:

the first source is the Equality Index. In it, Somalia is ranked 197 (ie is the worst country for LGBTQ people according to the Index), Afghanistan 196... but Palestine is ranked 151, so listing it in the article as one of the eight worst countries for LGBTQ people is untrue, and it's not what the source says.

The other source is not even about the Equality Index, it is a public opinion poll (the Equality Index does include opinion polls but it combines them with the legal situation of each country, ie penalties for homosexuality, and other hard data): in this poll Palestine does rank low, but the "worst eight list" in it is completely different from the one in the article, so it looks like Palestine was taken from this source just as a means to misrepresent the Equality Index results in the article.

The error in reporting the Index is very specific (why Palestine? why not any other country around the 150th place?). Combined with the other error, this looks like it's possibly related to the ongoing situation in the Middle East (depicting Palestine as "gay killers" etc). 151.68.59.188 (talk) 00:30, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]