mccFeb 5, 2025

Hello EU people:

There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks (i.e., trying to de-LGBTQ us— a process often described as "torture"). If you're interested, you can sign it here:

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but also needs to hit a threshold in four additional countries, and those are the four closest.

Show threadaeriqueFeb 5, 2025

@mcc Signed, but for the Netherlands it's a pain in the ass. Like 10 steps, jump to Dutch ID app, need to scan ID with NFC, multiple redirects back to browser.

I wonder if it's easier for other countries?

Admittedly I've got Firefox with NoScript set as my default browser making it even harder.

Show threadFranchescaFeb 5, 2025
@aerique @mcc I tried with my Dutch DigiD but it seems to expect me to have registered a Dutch ID (I think?) and I don’t have one as I’m not a Dutch citizen 😔 is there something I’m missing?
Show threadmccFeb 5, 2025
@Frantasaur @aerique I assume it wants you to vote with whatever country you are a citizen/national of. Incidentally, Ireland is also on the "votes unusually helpful" list.
Show threadFranchescaFeb 5, 2025
@mcc @aerique I need to give an address of residence for that, but I’m from NI so have never been a resident 😔
Show threadFranchescaFeb 5, 2025
@mcc @aerique wait, I was able to put my Dutch address when registering as an Irish citizen! Signed!!!
Show threadmccFeb 5, 2025
@Frantasaur @aerique Alright. Great. I was just writing out a long thing explaining how to use the site's contact page lol
Show threadmccFeb 5, 2025
@Frantasaur @aerique It seems like the operators of this site would want to include NI folks but also seems plausible the site might have been coded before brexit made things complicated
Show threadFranchesca
@mcc @aerique thanks for the push, I was almost giving up there.
Feb 5, 2025 at 9:26pmWeb