Spain’s Constitutional Court admitted the central government’s constitutional challenge against parts of Valencia’s 2025 reform of the regional Trans Law and suspended the challenged provisions. The suspended provisions amended several parts of Valencia’s 2017 law on gender identity and expression. The government argues that the reform may violate state powers over equality, health, education, and basic rights, including the national 2023 Trans and LGTBI Law. The challenge focuses especially on provisions concerning minors, education, and the regulation of “conversion therapies.” 

Today the Crime and Policing Bill has received Royal Assent, changing the law to make anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime an aggravated offence. We have worked hard to make this change, working closely with Parliamentarians and government. This change in law brings penalties for anti-LGBTQ+ hate crime in line with offences motivated by race and religion, and will give LGBTQ+ victims and survivors more time to access criminal justice.  

More: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/news/law-change-equalises-punishment-for-anti-lgbtq-hate-crime

The Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) has challenged the newly launched Utawaleza Coalition to champion necessary reforms in order to advance minority rights.

Director of Civil and Political Rights at the MHRC, Peter Chisi, said, for instance, the coalition must advocate for the review and reform of laws, policies, societal attitudes, and perceptions that continue to hinder the protection and promotion of the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community in Malawi.

The coalition has been set up by the Centre for the Development of People (CEDEP) with support from the UNDP grant, “Building a Unified National Coalition of LGBTIQ Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in Malawi.”

Chisi said the initiative will help strengthen coordination and amplify advocacy efforts for the protection of minority rights.

“Yes, we have Human Rights Defenders, but most of them focus on general issues. When you look at this one, especially the area of their focus, it is very strategic and critical to the promotion of the rights of the LGBTIQ+ community,” said Chisi.

CEDEP Executive Director, Gift Trapence, and Chairperson of the Utawaleza Coalition, George Kachimanga, said HRDs from the LGBTIQ community face personal security risks and systemic stigma.

According to the two, the coalition will help address these challenges through improved coordination, information sharing, and collective advocacy among members.

Deputy Ambassador to Norway, Rannveig Rajendram, said her country is committed to promoting inclusive societies, saying human rights are not selective.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/timveniradio/posts/the-malawi-human-rights-commission-mhrc-has-challenged-the-newly-launched-utawal/1409399837866192/

Egyptian authorities had refused to process applications for gender surgeries

More: https://76crimes.com/2026/04/23/egyptian-court-trans-gender-transition/

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https://www.iconnectblog.com/decolonisation-in-reverse-indias-2026-transgender-amendment-actand-the-return-of-the-1871-criminal-tribes-act-rationale/

Author: —Rishabh Mehta, candidate for B.B.A. LL.B (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, India; Aditya Birla Scholar and Executive Editor, GNLU Student Law Review

See: https://www.equalitylaw.eu/downloads/6504-bosnia-and-herzegovina-final-conviction-for-discrimination-against-lgbtiq-persons

See: https://www.equalitylaw.eu/downloads/6503-bosnia-and-herzegovina-discrimination-on-the-grounds-of-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-in-access-to-services

ECJ says law passed in 2021 is discriminatory and ‘contrary to the identity of the union’, in early test for new PM

The EU’s highest court has found Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ law to be discriminatory, stigmatising and in breach of basic democratic values, setting up an early test for the incoming government when it takes power next month.

In a wide-ranging judgment, the European court of justice said the 2021 law that bans content about LGBTQ+ people from schools and primetime TV was at odds with a society based on pluralism and fundamental rights, such as prohibition of discrimination and freedom of expression.

Péter Magyar won a landslide election victory last week after promising to root out corruption and improve living standards, but the incoming prime minister has been muted on whether he will roll back the anti-LGBTQ+ policies introduced by Viktor Orbán, who was defeated after 16 years in power.

More: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/eu-court-ecj-hungary-anti-gay-lgbtq-law

See also: Judgment of the Court in Case C-769/22 | Commission v Hungary (Values of the European Union): https://curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/p1_1000082657/en/judgment-c-769/22-commission-v-hungary