In Poland, the country’s Supreme Court issued a ruling that eliminates the requirement for transgender people to involve their parents in gender recognition proceedings.
Prior to this decision, transgender individuals – whether child or adult – who eye to change their gender marker on official documents were required to sue their parents. This was because the act (i.e. changing a gender marker) was considered a “legal claim”, which necessitated that there be two opposing parties in any civil action.
Some pro-LGBTQIA+ developments happened in Poland recently.
In 2024, for instance, the government introduced a bill eyeing to legalize civil partnerships, which – if passed – would reverse the country’s current ban on civil partnerships and its failure to recognize civil partnerships from other nations.
More recently, in January 2025, the justice ministry approved plans to add sexual orientation, gender, age and disability to the categories covered by the country’s hate crime laws.
