Less than two months after LGL formally urged Minister of the Interior Vladislav Kondratovič to end the automatic disqualification of trans persons from police service, the Ministry has circulated a draft order amending the Health Status Requirements Code (Sveikatos būklės reikalavimų sąvadas), the legal act governing fitness assessments for statutory service. The draft, dated 29
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Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) brought together more than 20 LGBTIQ+ community members, activists, and allies for a Foresight Workshop, a participatory day of imagining what Lithuania could look like in 2040 if queer people were not just surviving, but staying, creating, and thriving. The workshop was the Lithuanian chapter of QuCeer Future, an EU-funded project (CERV
Lithuania’s Court of Appeal has acquitted MEP Petras Gražulis on charges of inciting contempt against LGBTI people, overturning his October 2025 conviction and €10,000 fine. The case stemmed from 26 May 2022, when Gražulis confronted LGBTI activists outside the Seimas after a vote backing a civil-union bill, calling them “degenerates” and using other slurs. Five people
A judgment that cites Strasbourg extensively, ignores Luxembourg entirely, and tells an EU Member State’s clinical institutions that their only accountability mechanism no longer works. On 24 March 2026, the Supreme Court of Lithuania handed a senior psychiatrist his job back. Aleksandras Alekseičikas, head of the Borderline Conditions Unit at the Vilnius City Mental Health
On 15 March 2026, the Seimas sent back for revision a set of amendments to the Law on Equal Opportunities prepared by the Ministry of Social Security and Labour (SADM) – amendments that, among other things, would for the first time have explicitly added gender identity, gender expression, other sex characteristics and skin colour to
On 24 March 2026, a group of Lithuanian MPs – led by Ligita Girskienė, Vytautas Sinica and Audronius Ažubalis – registered a draft resolution proposing that a consultative referendum be held alongside the 2027 municipal elections, asking citizens whether they agree that Article 38 of the Constitution should explicitly state that “family legal relations arise
March 11, 2026. Lithuania celebrates 36 years of freedom from a system that used state institutions to enforce ideological conformity. That same week, a group of MPs filed bills to embed a single ideological vision of family into every classroom in the country. Months earlier, in January, the Justice Vice-Minister was in Madrid defending the
On March 6, 2026, LGL formally notified Minister Vladislav Kondratovič of a systemic problem, where an F64.0 diagnosis leads to automatic rejection, despite a stable mental health record and a successful term of military service with the same diagnosis on record. Trans persons seeking work in regulated professions constinue facing systemic barriers. The letter argues
The two-year initiative successfully trained 300+ professionals across six countries, and releases comprehensive recommendations aligned with strategic EU and CoE policy measures. The ENACT (Enhancing the capacity of civil society organisations to support victims of anti-LGBTIQ hate crimes) project released comprehensive policy recommendations and validated training methodologies addressing a critical systemic failure: the majority of
On November 4th, 2025, 11 members of the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) from various political powers (Social Democratic Party, Liberals Movement and and Conservative Homeland Union party) registered a set of amendments to the Civil Code that would establish a legal framework for gender-neutral registered partnerships. The move comes after the Constitutional Court ruled in April
Today Vladimir Simonko and Monika Antanaitytė from LGL together with other LGBTIQ civil society activists met with Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė to discuss partnership regulation issues. This is the first such meeting at the Government level in Lithuanian history. We are grateful for the Prime Minister’s clear position on LGBTIQ human rights issues. During the
Following the Constitutional Court’s landmark April 2025 ruling on partnership rights, the National LGBT Rights Organization LGL has been closely monitoring political developments regarding implementation of this decision. The formation of Lithuania’s new government under Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė, following former Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas’s resignation in July amid corruption allegations, presents both opportunities and