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A new EU Asylum Agency report tracking 20 months of case law finds real progress for queer and trans asylum seekers in Europe, and a persistent gap for intersex applicants that only a handful of countries address directly.
Advocate General Laila Medina's opinion in Case C-449/25 would leave a British woman without residence rights in Romania. It is advisory, not a ruling — and the distinction matters enormously.
The passport went to a non-binary Austrian living in Germany, and it's the first real-world test of a European Court of Justice ruling requiring EU states to recognize legal gender changes registered in another member state.
Starting August 23, Polish registry offices will transcribe same-sex marriages performed abroad for the first time ever. The government is moving ahead anyway, even after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled the plan unconstitutional.
A Slovak couple married in Austria in 2020 just got a rejection letter for their marriage registration — despite a CJEU ruling ordering every EU country to recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere in the bloc.
The Supreme Court of Cassation approved gender marker changes for four transgender Bulgarians last month, ending a six-year freeze forced open by an EU court ruling in March.
A gay Roma teacher faced a year in prison for organizing a banned Pride march. In June, prosecutors dropped the case — and the reason they gave matters as much as the outcome.
On May 13, ACCEPT and dozens of Romanian same-sex couples married elsewhere in the EU filed a formal administrative request demanding their marriages be recognized in Romanian civil registers. It is the first organized test of the EU's November 2025 Cupriak-Trojan ruling on Romanian soil.
Warsaw's civil registry transcribed a same-sex marriage certificate on May 14, the first time in Polish history. Wrocław became the second city to do so days later. Both implement court orders that the Tusk government had, until recently, signaled it might ignore.
The CJEU's March 11 ruling told three EU member states they must offer legal gender recognition to nationals who have exercised free movement. Sixty days on, Sofia has reopened cases but passed no law. Budapest and Bratislava are openly defying the judgment.
Over 100 rights groups, including Amnesty International and Poland's Supreme Bar Council, signed an open letter demanding the government implement court orders to recognize same-sex marriages performed abroad — after the Interior Minister suggested it wouldn't.
From forcing Poland to recognize same-sex marriages to challenging Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law, the European Court of Justice is stepping in where elected officials won't.
Poland's Supreme Administrative Court ruled that civil registries must record same-sex marriages from other EU states — a landmark shift for a country where marriage equality remains constitutionally banned.
A Romanian court ruled that the state must issue a new birth certificate to Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi, a trans man who transitioned in the UK — setting a binding precedent for all 27 EU member states.
