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Several European countries recognize the right of transgender people to marry in accordance with their post-operative sex. Croatia , Czech Republic , Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom all recognize this right.
Transgender asylum seekers are transgender people seeking refuge in another country due to stigmatization or persecution in their home countries. [1] Because of their gender non-conformity, transgender asylum seekers face elevated risks to their mental and physical health compared to cisgender asylum seekers or those whose gender identity is the same as their sex assigned at birth, including ...
The Icelandic Parliament amended the country's marriage law on 11 June 2010 by a unanimous vote to define marriage as between two individuals, thereby making same-sex marriage legal. The law took effect on 27 June 2010. [6] Iceland was the ninth country in the world to legalise same-sex marriage, and among the first European countries to do so.
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Laws concerning gender identity-expression by country or territory
In 1972, Sweden became the first country in the world to allow people who were transgender by legislation to surgically change their sexual organs and provide free hormone replacement therapy. [19] In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.
Canadian human rights groups and activists have, in response to the order, called for transgender and non-binary people to be exempted from the Safe Third Country Agreement (which prevents asylum claimants from making a claim in Canada after first arriving in the U.S.). [60] [61] [62]
Out magazine has declared Malta as being among the best European countries in terms of LGBT rights. [14] According to the United States Department of State, Malta is a safe environment for foreign LGBT travellers, [15] and according to the LGBT+ Danger Index Malta is the tenth safest country in the world for LGBT people. [16]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people generally have limited or highly restrictive rights in most parts of the Middle East, and are open to hostility in others. Sex between men is illegal in 9 of the 18 countries that make up the region. It is punishable by death in four of these 18 countries.