mccFeb 5

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.

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Note: Above post is also heads up Ireland https://hachyderm.io/@kanongil/113952584253412845
Gil Pedersen (@kanongil@hachyderm.io)

@mcc@mastodon.social You missed Ireland at >50%

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In the time since I linked the petition* above, Ireland has gone from under 50% to above the threshold! Spain is also now getting very close.

https://siorc.eu/notes/a4885f3ath9b00pu

The petition is up overall 26,000 votes in the last ten days. I don't know whether it can hit a million by May, but turning more countries green definitely sounds viable.

* The petition asks the EU to ban pseudo-psychological practices purporting to "convert" gay and trans people to straights. Yes, that's a thing, and it's cruel.

Caitríona :v_tb: :verified_bottom: (@cait)

I think other countries should follow what Ireland has done, we were spamming the petition on the #MastoDaoine hashtag and on BSky the #SpéirGhorm hashtag and that saw us shoot up from like 45% to 100+% RN: 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.

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EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.

It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:

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

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Britain proclaimed the legal non-existence of trans people in the last month with a court decision; in the US, Texas did so last night, with a bill passed in its House of Representatives. There is a global effort to unexist trans people. If nothing else, if the EU wants to show that it's different— that it's not a part of this— it seems like a pretty direct way to say so would be this citizen's initiative against attempting to unexist individual trans people via torture.

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114490365541452371

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@mcc I have a dutch passport but don't have an id so I can't sign 😓
May 11 at 9:10pmWeb
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@thebestnom thanks anyway