This document analyses legislative changes adopted in Georgia in 2024–2025 and their impact on LGBT rights, access to gender-affirming healthcare and legal gender recognition, as well as HIV prevention and testing services. It examines how new restrictions affect community-based organisations providing services to LGBT communities and presents assessments by international human rights bodies.


The publication was created by ECOM and published within the framework of the regional project “Sustainability of services for key populations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (EECA) — #iSoS: Empowering and Innovations”, implemented by a consortium of organizations under management of the ICF “Alliance for Public Health”, with the financial support of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Viewpoints presented herein are solely those of its authors and may not coincide with the views or opinions of the Allians for Public Health and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.