Rainbow Map: 2025 Edition

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association (ILGA) in Europe published its annual flagship report “2025 Rainbow Map” – a snapshot of the state of human rights for LGBTQI+ communities on the continent. The sharpest drops that the report recorded concern Hungary, where the authorities banned a Pride parade, the UK, where the Supreme Court defined a woman by “biological sex,” and Georgia, where a broad anti-LGBTQI+ legislation package, mirroring Russia’s laws, was passed. Calling attention to the setbacks and overall erosion of democracy in Europe, the report also spotlights resistance through courts: the CJEU’s rulings that Hungary “must correct the gender markers of transgender refugees without requiring proof of surgery” and that “France’s gender-based railway ticketing system violated GDPR, discriminating against non-binary and transgender individuals,” as well as national courts’ decisions in Czechia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Spain.