Shortly after President Erdoğan announced that 2025 is the "Year of the Family," the queer rights organization named Kaos Gay and Lesbian Cultural Research and Solidarity Association obtained a new draft bill from the justice ministry that aims to criminalize support for LGBTQIA+ rights and enshrine “biological sex” in law. The legislation includes provisions that would imprison individuals who hold same-sex engagements or marriages, raise the gender reassignment age to 21, and also increase hurdles for changing gender on government documents. As a result, LGBTQIA+ activists are deeply concerned, viewing these measures as an attempt to silence their community and undermine broader human rights movements in Turkey.