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AylenSharing this petition on banning conversion therapy in the EU. You can sign it as an EU citizen, no matter where you live. Sharing in case anyone is interested https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
Please boost!
Kenneth John Bardsley@asdil12
Can't sign from outside the EU, it seems.
Can't sign from outside the EU, it seems.
Pepijn
DJGummikuh@asdil12 I keep getting confused. Is conversion therapy not a good thing? Like helping people adjust their body to their gender? Or am I mixing terminologies here?
GunChleoc@DJGummikuh @asdil12 It's Conversion Therapy against their will, like they did to Alan Turing. This is not Trans Healthcare.
@gunchleoc @asdil12 oh fuck. Ok fuck that, sorry for my confusion!
@DJGummikuh @asdil12 No problem, it confused me as well until I learned more about it.
Joe@DJGummikuh @asdil12 They always choose words that make their thing sound like it's good. Such as Right to Life. In this case it's actually Anti-LGBTQ+ and RTL is Anti-Abortion.
I have to translate conversion therapy in my mind to get it clear.
Alex@DJGummikuh @asdil12 think basically torture and child abuse to force someone to not be gay.
Scissors Cut Paper...Does this actually help?
I am not trolling, I have a genuine interest in the answer.
One of the things I have seen USians do is create a petition (with change.org or whoever), collect signatures (and personal data) then ask the signers to share the petition (and collect /that/ info and spam the sharees with fundraising asks). The petition is actually forwarded, and ignored.
All the folks who sign pat themselves on their virtual backs because they "did something."
@vor I'm actually not sure how legally binding a EU-petition is in general, but at least it is is the official petition portal of the EU government.
always tired@gunchleoc @asdil12 @vor In this case it's a EU citizen initiative which has a specific status in the EU quasi constitution.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens%27_Initiative
@project1enigma @gunchleoc @asdil12
Thank you. I am /still/ getting text spam from someone sharing a change.org petition with me via text a week and a half ago.
As I am not a citizen of the EU, I didn't even know where to start investigating.
@vor @gunchleoc @asdil12 It's definitely ok to ask. I find change . org annoying too. And how can one know...
It's only a minority where I see people sharing an "official" petition/initiative etc. There's the European thing. (As non EU citizen you can share if you like.)
@vor @gunchleoc @asdil12 There's a German official petition site (IIRC also only for citizens, possibly also residents).
And I know of a British parliament related official platform (where I'm not eligible to sign but if it makes sense to me what they're gathering signatures for, I gladly share for those who are eligible)
Sune AukenHere is a very good (open access) study of the work petitions do in the climate debate. I believe it transfers well to other areas.
In short: Petitions are not a silver bullet or anything, but they do important work and are defintely worth signing and spreading.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9788395720499-009/html
I will boost.
The internet is full of lies, and I don't want to be a manure spreader.
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Flora and Fungi@asdil12
An average of 27.7% of people who identify as LGBTIQ in the EU answered yes to the following question :
"Have you experienced any of the interventions to change your sexual orientation and/or gender identity including: intervention by family members; prayer, religious ritual or religious counselling; psychological or psychiatric treatment; medication; physical violence (such as beatings); sexual violence; verbal abuse or humiliation; other?"
https://www.equaldex.com/surveys/lgbtiq-population-who-experienced-conversion-practice
Bravo. Signed with a vengeance.
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🏴☠️@asdil12 well now i don't know if i already signed it ._.
Raven Luni@asdil12 Have they still not banned that yet? fucking hell...
chef 😎@asdil12
Signed, boosted and shared widely. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺✌🏼
Signed, boosted and shared widely. 🏳️🌈🇪🇺✌🏼