Talk:LGBT rights in the European Union

Table
The table as it currently stands only covers Sexual Orientation rights and not Trans* or Intersex rights. A separate table should be had for Trans* and Intersex rights as Gender/Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation are not the same and making additions to the existing table in terms of columns would make the current table unwieldy and confusing. The current table easily portrays the information on Sexual Orientation rights and is titled accordingly. As such to adequately portray to the same standards the Gender/Gender Identity rights properly a separate table is needed. Sport and politics (talk) 14:12, 21 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I would prefer to have one table only if possible, to keep information per country. We could remove the column about the military, we can just add a note below for Cyprus. For anti-discrimination laws, we can distinguish between countries with SO only and SO & GI anti-discrimination laws. Same for hate speech laws. Then we could add a column for laws on gender change. What columns would you include in a separate table for laws on gender/gender identity? SPQRobin (talk) 14:44, 21 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The minimum GI Columns need to be IMO, Transsexualism declassified as a disease, Trans* people allowed to change documents and legal gender, The recognition of more than just male and Female Genders, and being allowed to change their gender and retain then marriage/union without being required to divorce/dissolve it for trans people and the right to marry for Intersex people. That is at least  4/5 new columns If there are separate columns on the rights to serve in the military and specific anti discrimination laws to GI then we are up to 6/7 columns, making a table with more than enough information and easily distinguishable that sexual orientation and  Gender Identity are not the same and there are significant differences between the two in terms of rights and equality. At the moment the table gives a false impression that GI and SO are the same and the GI is on a par with SO when in fact it is far from it. Sport and politics (talk) 09:11, 22 December 2013 (UTC)


 * SO and GI are of course not the same, but in similar tables they are always combined (LGBT rights by country or territory). I'm not opposed to a separate table on this article, but:
 * Transsexualism declassified as a disease: I didn't find much information about it, but I would be surprised if a EU country classified it as a disease. (We neither include a column about homosexuality being (de)classified as a disease.)
 * Trans* people allowed to change documents and legal gender: this should certainly be added
 * GI anti-discrimination laws can be specified in the existing column, like we usually do on LGBT rights articles
 * For the other rights you mentioned, they are often difficult to find and often not even reported on in the main LGBT rights article of the country.
 * I'm also not sure whether we should restrict the table to legal aspects relevant to EU law or if we can include any relevant LGBT rights. SPQRobin (talk) 18:43, 22 December 2013 (UTC)

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Malta do have civil unions and adoption now
I [ reverse] the [ changes] of the phantom user Knisfo about Malta, since the source that he is offering as exchange of mine is not contradicting mine but confirming that the bill passed its 3rd reading. --Stalik (talk) 07:53, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

The bill passed by parliament has not been signed yet. There is no Civil Union law (in force).

Malta does not have Civil unions. Knisfo (talk) 09:34, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

My recent edits
So a few anonymous users have persisted to delete my edits. And I would like to know why.

- Same-sex marriage is not legal in Ireland, I am aware of that but it will soon be. It was approved via referendum. So it should be added even though it is not legal yet.

- Under "Recognition of same-sex unions", all types of recognition should be added. Civil union, Registered Partnership and Unregistered cohabitation are all types of recognition. Unregistered cohabitation recognizes same-sex couples but it does with less benefits than Civil union (or Registered Partnership). This means that Civil union (or Registered Partnership) outranks Unregistered cohabitation. Some countries (Portugal and Spain) have legalized unregistered cohabitation. Some other countries have legalized unregistered cohabitation and then later Civil union (or Registered Partnership). I think the easiest thing to do is only mention the highest level of recognition. For example: Portugal. Portugal legalized Unregistered cohabitation in 2001 but not Civil union (or Registered Partnership). Anyways Portugal does recognize same-sex couples. Another example: The Netherlands. The Netherlands legalized Unregistered cohabitation in 1979 and much later Registered Partnership in 1998. Like I said before the easiest thing to do is add only the highest level of recognition. So for The Netherlands only Registered Partnership should be mentioned.

- Lastly "Recognition of same-sex unions" means that recognizes same-sex couples. In Denmark and Sweden, partnerships are not performed but are recognized. Meaning that both Denmark and Sweden both recognize same-sex couples. 92.107.68.17 (talk) 09:30, 25 May 2015 (UTC)


 * "I would like to know why." You already do know why. Over and over again...
 * 1) Recognition:
 * a) Marriage is a form of recognition, too.
 * b) You contradict yourself. You say (e.g.) you want only the highest form of recognition to be listed, but in the cases of Portugal and Spain (and only in the cases of Portugal and Spain) you insist on having all forms of recognition included;
 * Portugal: unregistered cohabitation (and marriage)
 * Spain: unregistered cohabitation and registered union (and marriage)
 * There was a section "unregistered cohabitation". You simply could have added information on all countries, but you still insisted on Portugal and Spain only. This article is on something "European Union". There are more than two member states. Add all or none !
 * 2) Denmark and Sweden:
 * Their registered partnerships are listed ! So what's the problem ?176.2.7.56 (talk) 16:18, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Slovenia
It seems that the same-sex marriage is now legal in Slovenia, see. :D 193.198.162.14 (talk) 13:16, 24 February 2017 (UTC)

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LGBT rights in Romania
There is an ongoing project in Romania on changes to be made to the constitution.

https://www.romania-insider.com/initiative-changing-family-definition-romanian-constitution-voted-deputies/

https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-mps-decide-project-change-family-definition-constitution/

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/redefinition-of-family-adopted-by-romania-s-chamber-of-deputies-03-28-2017

I wonder if this should be mentioned somewhere in this article or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ares857 (talk • contribs) 12:09, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

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Needs a bit of editing
I find this article oddly constructed at times and I think it would be better with some editing. For example, the lead says that same sex sexual activity and employment rights are protected and that states have different laws on other aspects. But the first para of section two appears to say that it is also EU law that any discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited. This is confusing at best. Under 'discrimination in the provision of goods' it says; "a proposal...has been introduced" and describes what it "would do". But the date is 2008 - it's hardly current and indeed seems irrelevant in 2024. This section also talks about "the literature" without saying what literature is being referred to. Under "same sex unions" it says the following: "European Union law (the Citizens’ Rights Directive 2004/38/EC) requires those member states that legalised same-sex partnerships to recognise each other's partnerships for the purpose of freedom of movement.[19] The European Parliament has however approved a report calling for mutual recognition". This doesn't make sense, to me. If a directive requires members states to recognise each others partnerships, why would there be a later report calling for mutual recognition? Finally, the references are not very good. For example, reference one is a dead link. Reference two is nonsensical, apparently to an unrelated article. Reference three is a primary source document. Referencers for and five seem to be dead links. Of the rest, a lot are also primary sources which shed little light on the subject they're supposed to refer to, and others are essentially blog pages with no provenance.

I will edit to improve this article, as it is an important subject. I will leave it a day or two to see if anyone has a view. Charlie Campbell 28 (talk) 22:46, 21 January 2024 (UTC)


 * OK, here goes. I intend to start by deleting the first two paragraphs headed Treaty Protections using the principle of WP:BRD. The lead says that only some discrimination is unlawful (ie, prevented by directives) in the EU. The first para under Treaty Protections implies that any discrimination is unlawful. The second para does the same. This is inconsistent with the lead. Of the three references which support the two paragraphs, two are dead links and one is a primary source which doesn't explain anything to the reader of itself. Reference to these directives in the article either need explaining or deleting. I can't explain them so I am deleting.  I will leave it another day in case anyone else wants to comment. Charlie Campbell 28 (talk) 18:25, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 * There was a revert of my edit, but as far as I can see the most recent revert was done in error (i.e. my edit was explained at the edit and here but the revert said at the edit section that no explanation had been given). I am assuming at this point that the revert was automated in some way and that the editor may not have actually read my comments there or here. I put this here to give other editors a chance to reply again, but as things stand the first two paragraphs under "Treaty Protections" do not make sense and have no references to support them (two don't link anywhere and the third is just a general link to primary source; a very large piece of quasi legislation). This section does not seem to be improvable as no other sources seem available to support; that means the correct action is to remove the section. This does not preclude the same information being put back in if evidence for the section's claims is found somewhere in future. I do not wish to engage in anything even close to edit-warring so I will try again one more time in due course if no comments are received here. Charlie Campbell 28 (talk) 14:29, 27 January 2024 (UTC)