Graeme Reid found that “LGBT individuals are negatively affected by the lack of adequate protections” in Poland.

Graeme Reid found that “LGBT individuals are negatively affected by the lack of adequate protections” in Poland.
The bill would add sexual orientation, gender, age and disability to the categories covered by Poland’s hate crime laws.
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Inclusion in the Atlas of Hate, which tracks anti-LGBT resolutions, had “damaged the good name of the country”, argued local authorities.
The ruling – which is the first of its kind in Poland – is seen as a landmark in a country that is ranked as the EU’s worst for LGBT people.
The European Commission wants the rights of same-sex parents to be recognised across the EU, but Poland is opposed.
A child who does not identify with their assigned sex needs to be helped, not reinforced in making an “anthropological error”, says Przemysław Czarnek.
Jarosław Kaczyński, the head of Poland’s ruling party, renewed his criticism of the LGBT community.
The gay couple who brought the case say the ruling shows that same-sex marriages are not barred under the constitution.
“Rainbow Friday” (Tęczowy Piątek) is held every year in October, with school authorities able to decide whether to take part.
Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk says the conservative government “really wants to change the brains of our children”
Jerzy Jarniewicz’s “Mondo cane” won the Nike Literary Award while Joanna Ostrowska received the readers’ prize.
Przemysław Czarnek linked “LGBT ideology” to Nazism and said that “these people are not equal to normal people”.
The court case began yesterday.
Katowice’s LGBT parade was held jointly with the Ukrainian city of Odesa while Lublin’s passed peacefully, unlike in previous years.