The Rights of LGBTI Children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child

UN treaty bodies have increasingly highlighted the need to end discrimination and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons. While these recommendations are relevant to children, they take on an adult's perspective and therefore fail to take particular regard to how the situation for children may differ from that of adults. This article provides a children's perspective on LGBTI rights. It presents and discusses relevant articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in addition to jurisprudence of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, with a focus on the rights to non-discrimination, identity, self-determination, and health.