Source: European Parliament
22.10.2025
Priority question for written answer P-004175/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Branko Grims (PPE)
The Commission has published a document entitled ‘Union of Equality: LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030’. No part of this text is consistent with the provisions of basic international acts on the protection of fundamental human rights safeguarding the rights of the child: the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in particular Articles 16 and 26), the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child (preamble, principles 2, 6, 7 and 9) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Articles 3 and 18).
Parts which are in clear breach of those acts include:
– the Commission’s commitment to support legal gender recognition based on self-determination ‘free from age restrictions’;
– prohibiting and penalising activities aimed at persuading a child not to undergo gender reassignment;
– the Commission’s support for so-called ‘Pride marches’. Every staging of these marches, which often seem to include ‘simulations’ of even the most extreme sexual practices, with the participation or presence of minors, is a clear violation of the above-mentioned international acts. In addition, this support is clearly in contravention of the penal codes of countries which explicitly prohibit and sanction any display of extreme sexual practices to children, even if they are ‘only a simulation’.
When will the Commission withdraw this contentious LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030, which is in clear breach of basic human rights acts protecting children?
Submitted: 22.10.2025