Gay marriage 2025
With the holiday end over, a number of state legislatures are reconvening starting this week to hold their 2025 sessions, and LGBTQ-related bills and policies are already on the docket in many states.
Massachusetts, Montana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Minnesota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Modern Hampshire, New York, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia are all states where legislators have already started meeting again to consider legislation for the novel year. According to the Trans Legislation Tracker, there possess been 115 trans-specific bills prefiled in 2025 as of early this week. The state-level bills are especially heavily concentrated in places like South Carolina, Texas, and Missouri and would modify transgender people in various aspects of their lives such as in health care, education, and access to restrooms. Should the trend of bills obey like those introduced last year, other attacks may alter censorship in schools around LGBTQ issues and our community’s freedom of speech and expression more broadly.
In Texas, anti-equality lawmakersproposed 32 anti-transgender b
Project 2025 Exposed
Strip away non-discrimination policies
– Removing terms including “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” “gender,” “abortion,” and “reproductive rights” from federal rules, regulations, contracts, grants, and legislation.
– Restricting the application of the Supreme Court’s Bostock v. Clayton County decision, which extended workplace protections against sex discrimination to LGBTQ employees.
– Rescinding regulations prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, trans status, and sex characteristics.
– Defining “sex discrimination” narrowly as referring only to the “biological binary” of male and female as assigned at birth.
Restrict health care
– Eliminating transgender health care in Medicare and Medicaid
– Conflicting transgender health concern or abortion access to service members using public funds
– End anti-discrimination rules based on gender identity and sexual orientation in the Affordable Care Act
– Ending Medicare’s ability to negotiate drug prices which would negatively impact millions of elderly Americans, particula
What’s the context?
Pending laws, court cases and policy decisions in several countries will protect some LGBTQ+ individuals and restrict others
LONDON - After a year that saw both major gains and a spate of setbacks for rights, 2025 is set to be another mixed year for LGBTQ+ people, with some countries achieving marriage equality and others criminalising diverse sexualities and genders.
Last year progress was made through marriage equality in Greece and Thailand, the decriminalisation of male lover sex in Namibia and Dominica and self-identification laws in Germany and Ecuador, which ease the process of changing legal gender.
However, other countries experienced considerable setbacks, with anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passing in Ghana, Mali, Georgia and Bulgaria.
A grim threshold was crossed in 2024, when the number of trans and gender-diverse people who have been murdered surpassed 5,000 for the first time since a rights group began watching such cases in 2008.
In the United States, more than 570 bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community were tracked by rights groups.
Here are the key things to look out for in 2025.
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Marriage Equality Around the Society
The Human Rights Campaign tracks developments in the legal recognition of same-sex marriage around the world. Working through a worldwide network of HRC global alumni and partners, we lift up the voices of community, national and regional advocates and contribute tools, resources, and lessons learned to empower movements for marriage equality.
Current State of Marriage Equality
There are currently 38 countries where same-sex marriage is legal: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Uruguay.
These countries have legalized marriage equality through both legislation and court decisions.
Countries that Legalized Marriage Equality in 2025
Liechtenstein: On May 16, 2024, Liechtenstein's government passed a bill in favor of marriage equality. The law went into effe