In 2020, the European Commission published its first-ever LGBTIQ Equality Strategy, marking a watershed moment for advancing and protecting the fundamental rights of LGBTIQ people in the EU, including intersex people and the ground of sex characteristics. The 2020-2025 Strategy set down concrete and clear objectives and measures for the Commission to build on in their work to mainstream LGBTIQ equality across different policy areas.
As set out in the Commissioner for Preparedness, Crisis Management and Equality, Hadja Lahbib’s mission letter, the next EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy has to continue building on the advancements already secured, and should also seek to continue the important work of mainstreaming intersex and LGBTQ rights in all areas of the Commission’s work.
In this document, OII Europe has summarised, under 17 subheadings, the main policy actions it has identified for advancing intersex rights across the EU in the next 2025-2030 Strategy. We have worked to consolidate clear and comprehensive recommendations, as well as to provide key data in support of the proposed measures and objectives. It addresses the following issues:
- Countering backlash and the anti-gender movement
- Hate crime and hate speech / violence
- Gender based violence
- Conversion practices
- Awareness raising about intersex realities and IGM through targeted action
- Protection from discrimination
- Health
- Socio-economic inequality
- Youth & Education
- Intersectionality
- Asylum
- Sport
- Undelivered items from the previous LGBTIQ Equality Strategy
- Mainstreaming of intersex including across DGs
- Data collection
- Funding
- Enforcement of EU legislation & infringement procedures
- External Dimension
