Impact
As of 2012 few countries have passed legislation at the federal level that includes full-fledged legal recognition for LGBT couples such as marriage, adoption, inheritance, and insurance rights, despite the efforts of IDAHO participants. Some countries continue to criminalize homosexuality or transgender identity and persecute LGBT people, sometimes violently. LGBT people in these countries may be vulnerable to state violence or hate crimes, and LGBT organizations or movements may be vulnerable to state-sponsored harassment.
An ILGA report issued for IDAHO 2009 confirmed that no less than 80 countries still consider homosexuality illegal. In seven of these countries, homosexual acts are punishable by death. In almost all countries, transphobic laws limit the freedom to act in ways that do not conform to the roles and expectations that are culturally determined by a person’s sex at birth.
Read more about this topic: International Day Against Homophobia And Transphobia
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