UN experts issue guidance in relation to LGBTI+s living with disabilities

Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; and Gerard Quinn, Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, issue guidance in relation to LGBTI+s living with disabilities.

“There are compounded and persistent stereotypes that persons with disabilities and persons who are LGBT are ‘less than’ in society at large,” said the experts. “A pervasive perception is that, unless they are ‘cured’ or ‘corrected’, they are lesser or somehow inferior to other human beings. This prejudice lies at the root of violence against them. Including practices of correction or conversion and the denial of agency in decisions about their bodies, forced sterilisation, and interventions – medical or otherwise – to which they are subjected.”