Landscape of LGBTIQ rights altered significantly since 2004

The landscape of LGBTIQ rights has altered significantly since then and particularly over the past three years which have seen Malta climb to the first place of ILGA-Europe’s Rainbow Index as a gamut of legislation has been introduced. These included the Civil Union Act granting legal recognition to same-sex couples and their children, the Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics Act based on the principles of self-determination and bodily integrity and the Constitutional protections against discrimination for the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity among others and most recently the banning of conversion practices and depathologisation of trans identities. Voir l'article...