LGBTQ rights in the United Kingdom
The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the United Kingdom have developed significantly over time. Today, lesbian, gay and bisexual rights are considered to be advanced by international standards. However, evaluations from ILGA-Europe have indicated significant backsliding, with the UK receiving the highest score in Europe in the organisation's 2015 report on LGBTI rights, before falling to 22nd place in the 2025 report. In particular, anti-trans rhetoric in UK media has been described as "increasing and becoming more vitriolic" since 2016 and becoming "super-charged" since 2018. At the time of the initial formation of the UK in 1707, Christian teaching condemned same-sex male sexual activity as "sinful" and the 1533 Buggery Act made male anal sex a civil offence punishable by death in England and Wales while sodomy was punishable by death in Scotland. LGBT rights first came to prominence following the decriminalisation of sexual activity between men...
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