Posted on January 13, 2025

Poland Considers Adding ‘Sexual Orientation’ to Its ‘Hate Speech’ Protected Classes

Ordo Iuris Institute, January 9, 2025

The Polish Sejm is working on a bill to criminalize so-called “hate speech”. This bill to amend Poland’s Penal Code seeks to establish “sexual orientation” as a protected characteristic, and thus introduce restrictions on one’s ability to express opposition to the demands of LGBT organizations, which have been growing over time. The bill’s drafters, despite removing the term “gender identity” from it, did not abandon their intention of redefining the basic legal concept of one’s sex, or “gender,” so that it is understood as a social construct rather than as an objective, biological reality. The draft furthermore extends the scope of the amended provisions to situations in which a protected characteristic is not the direct cause of a crime or is not even a characteristic of the victim of an alleged crime.

The Ordo Iuris Institute has prepared an analysis of the “hate speech bill” that is being pushed through by Donald Tusk’s government in Poland.

More on this: https://en.ordoiuris.pl/civil-liberties/privileging-certain-groups-and-restricting-freedom-speech-poland-just-western