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EU Strategy Backs Self-ID Gender Recognition With No Age Limits

The Commission outlines a nonbinding plan that it says could be advanced through court challenges or by tying funds to compliance.

The new LGBT policies have attracted criticism from women and gay rights campaigners
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Overview

  • The European Commission published its LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030, pledging support for legal gender recognition based on self-determination without age restrictions.
  • The policy framework, as reported, would restrict or ban therapies intended to test or question minors’ gender decisions.
  • Brussels signals it may pursue enforcement through the European Court of Justice and by conditioning EU funds for regions it deems discriminatory.
  • The strategy focuses on legal gender status changes rather than medical treatments and proposes exchanges of best practices to help member states adopt self-ID systems.
  • Sex-based rights advocates including Sex Matters and the Athena Forum condemned the plan, while the Commission linked some criticism to foreign information manipulation, citing Russia.