In March, the TransAkcija Institute published a report analysing media reporting on LGBTI issues in Slovenia over the past year. The analysis identified a significant increase in hostile and stigmatising narratives targeting sexual minorities, including the use of inflammatory language, the framing of LGBTI people as a societal threat, and the repetition of misleading or negative stereotypes. The report linked these media trends to a broader climate of intolerance, noting their contribution to the normalisation of bias-motivated hostility and violence against LGBTI people.

In July, the Journalists’ Tribunal of Honour (NČR) — a joint body of the Slovenian Journalists’ Association and the Journalists’ Union — issued its decision in the case of Legebitra Society v. journalist and Nova24TV’s editor-in-chief Marko Puš. The complaint argued that a piece published by Nova24TV contained factual inaccuracies, misleading images, opinion presented as fact, and the promotion of stereotypes and intolerance towards LGBTI people. The NČR found that the article in question violated multiple provisions of the Code of Journalists of Slovenia.

In April, the Ethics Commission of Journalists ruled that journalist Rok Blažič violated the Code of Journalists of Slovenia in a series of articles published in 2023. According to the Ethics Commission, Blažič misleadingly portrayed gender reassignment as a commercialised and harmful practice.

In April, the two largest opposition parties in Slovenia, SDS and NSi, recently submitted a proposal to amend the Criminal Act to criminalise the promotion of homosexuality and trans identities, with penalties of up to three years in prison. The proposal mirrored similar laws seen in Hungary, Bulgaria, Georgia, Belarus, and Russia. However, the current government swiftly rejected the initiative, citing its incompatibility with human rights and democratic principles.

In June, a special edition of the magazine ‘Demokracija’ was published under the provocative title ‘LGBT+ Ideology: Genocide of Childhood’, featuring 76 pages primarily focused on anti-trans narratives.

In September, the second-largest opposition party, NSi, submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Health to remove gender- affirming surgery costs from coverage under compulsory health insurance. As of now, the government has not yet responded to the proposal.

In late December 2024, an LGBTI event at the Pritličje bar in Ljubljana was targeted by two masked men, who entered the venue, performed Nazi salutes, and tore down an event poster. Ljubljana Pride Association underscored that this attack is not an isolated case but part of a wider pattern of organised hate speech and far-right intimidation.

In April, Ljubljana inaugurated Park Ada Škerl and Sonja Plaskan, the first park in Slovenia named after a same-sex couple. However, the park has since become a recurring target of vandalism. Just a month after its opening, the sign marking the park was damaged. In June, the Lesbian Quarter Festival team reported that the sign had been vandalised for a third time, describing the repeated attacks as homophobic acts against a symbol of inclusion and equality. By early September, the sign was stolen entirely. The Ljubljana City Municipality confirmed that the sign had been recovered and was being held by the Center Police Station as part of pre-trial proceedings. The municipality announced that the sign would be reinstalled and reiterated its commitment to protecting what it called an “important symbol of tolerance.”

In June, the Mariborka bookstore in Maribor was once again the target of a bias-motivated attack as three men aged between 30 and 40 forcibly tore down a rainbow flag displayed behind locked doors, also destroying signage and leaving homophobic graffiti. One of the perpetrators was eventually tracked down and arrested by the police.

Ahead of the Pride march in Maribor, organisers expressed concern about rising levels of hostile rhetoric and social tensions directed at LGBTI people in public discourse. A small group of counter-protesters gathered near the march route and attempted to provoke conflict on the margins of the event, though the Pride march itself proceeded without reported major incident or injury.

In April, Slovenia’s Advocate of the Principle of Equality found that a gynecologist discriminated against a LGBTI patient by refusing to provide pregnancy care citing a conscientious objection against services related to same-sex couples. The Advocate ruled that this refusal amounted to discrimination, as the patient was treated less favorably solely on the basis of her sexual orientation, depriving her of the right to healthcare. According to a public announcement from the Advocate of the Principle of Equality, the patient reached a settlement in January 2026, and the gynaecologist paid compensation to the patient.

On 10 January, the Peace Institute — Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies published a national report on anti-LGBTIQ hate crime in Slovenia. The report draws on desk and field research and highlights the need to strengthen cooperation between civil society and public institutions, including to improve support for people targeted by hate-motivated violence and to prevent re-victimisation.

According to data collected by Legebitra, the organisation provided legal counselling and advocacy support in a significant number of cases affecting LGBTI people in Slovenia during 2025. Legebitra worked on six cases involving homophobic  and  transphobic  speech,  seven cases of bias-motivated violence, and four cases of discrimination. In addition, the organisation supported 17 cases related to parental rights and 26 cases involving LGBTIQ+ refugees and asylum seekers.

In May, Slovenia joined 15 other EU member states in a declaration urging Hungary to revise legislative and constitutional amendments adopted in March and April 2025, which could impose fines on participants and organisers of LGBTI events, authorise the use of facial recognition software at such gatherings, and potentially allow bans on them. The declaration was initiated by the Netherlands and co-signed by Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Slovenia, and Sweden.

In June, the National Assembly adopted amendments to the Act on Infertility Treatment and Biomedically Assisted Fertilisation Procedures to align Slovenian law with a Constitutional Court ruling that found restrictions on access to assisted reproduction unconstitutional. The changes, which were signed into law and entered into force in November, revise the purpose of the law to cover measures that help people conceive and enable them to decide on childbirth, and expand access to include single women and women in same-sex relationships, including through the use of donated reproductive cells (eggs and sperm).

In February, Slovenia’s Ministry of the Interior acknowledged that police officers in Maribor had acted unlawfully and inappropriately in their response to a series of hate-motivated incidents targeting the LGBTI community. The incidents originated in June, during Pride Month, after a rainbow flag displayed at the Mariborka bookstore prompted escalating acts of hostility, including verbal abuse, Nazi salutes, spitting, vandalism, attempted theft, intimidation, and direct threats against staff (see also under Bias-motivated violence). Despite the seriousness of the situation, officers responding to the scene failed to secure evidence or initiate formal proceedings and instead attributed responsibility to the bookstore.