Poland’s right-wing Konfederacja party has submitted a bill to parliament seeking to explicitly ban adoption by both formal and informal homosexual couples, presenting the proposal as a response to what it describes as an accelerating legal normalization of same-sex unions under Donald Tusk’s government and growing pressure from European courts.
The announcement was made by Konfederacja co-leader Krzysztof Bosak, who argued that although Poland has traditionally not allowed same-sex adoption in practice, current law lacks a direct statutory prohibition. According to Bosak, that legal ambiguity has become increasingly dangerous.
‘We need clear regulations protecting children,’ Bosak wrote on social media while announcing the legislation. He added that the bill would prohibit adoption by both ‘formal and informal homosexual relationships’ and challenged governing coalition parties to support it in parliament.
Składamy w Sejmie projekt ustawy o zakazie adopcji homoseksualnych.
— Krzysztof Bosak 🇵🇱 (@krzysztofbosak) May 20, 2026
Mało kto wie, że obecnie w polskim prawie nie ma takiego zakazu. Do tej pory nie był potrzebny, bo sprawa była oczywista. Teraz już oczywista nie jest. Rząd Donalda Tuska wbrew Konstytucji rejestruje zagraniczne… pic.twitter.com/LjQcaUYFMM
The move comes only days after Warsaw officially registered Poland’s first same-sex marriage, following rulings by both the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court requiring authorities to recognize same-sex marriages legally concluded in other EU member states.
Last Thursday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared that his government would implement the European rulings and urged officials to respect the ‘dignity’ of same-sex couples.
While progressives welcomed the ruling and its implementation, conservatives reacted with outrage, pointing to what they described as constitutional violations and broader cultural consequences. Poland’s Constitution defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, and critics of the rulings argue that Brussels and European courts are increasingly interfering in national family law through indirect legal overreach.
Bosak directly linked the adoption bill to those concerns, accusing the Tusk government of introducing the effects of same-sex marriage ‘through the back door’. Earlier this year, Konfederacja also strongly criticized government plans to alter civil registry forms from ‘man’ and ‘woman’ to gender-neutral formulations such as ‘first spouse’ and ‘second spouse’ in order to comply with the CJEU ruling.
Although same-sex couples currently cannot jointly adopt children in Poland, conservatives warn that the absence of an explicit statutory ban could eventually allow courts or administrative institutions to expand adoption rights incrementally through legal interpretation or evolving European jurisprudence.
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