2025 in LGBTQ rights

This is a list of notable events in the history of LGBTQ rights taking place in the year 2025.

• 1 – A law allowing same-sex marriages comes into effect on January 1, 2025, in Liechtenstein.^[1]
• 20 – President of the United States Donald Trump signs an executive order Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.^[2][3][4]
  • It would require federal departments to recognize gender as a male-female binary only (determined by biological sex assigned at conception), replace all instances of "gender" with "sex" in materials, cease all funding for gender-affirming care, cease allowing gender self-identification on federal documents such as passports, cease the funding or promotion of "gender ideology", cease the application of Bostock v. Clayton County as to provide Title VII protection based on gender identity in federal activities and prohibit transgender people from using single-sex federally funded facilities congruent with their gender. This new law doesn't affect sexual minorities such as gays, bisexuals, and lesbians.
• 22 – A law allowing same-sex marriages comes into effect on January 23, 2025, in Thailand.^[5][6]