Mastodawn

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.

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%

Hachyderm.io

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.

Siorc

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

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

Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—

BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!

EU citizens can sign at: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

By the way, since I know there's a lot of Germans on Mastodon:

The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352419261539 ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the 8th country to endorse the petition!

15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:

¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.

It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.

The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know

Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website

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

OKAY WOW. WOW. THE WHOLE THING WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. WOW.

The EU citizen initiative petitioning the European Parliament to outlaw "conversion therapy" ("curing" LGBTs via torture) has met its threshold (1M votes and 8 countries supporting).

One week ago I sincerely thought y'all wouldn't make it. Amazing work Europe (and hi5 Germany, now country 8).

This is an incredible statement at a time the US/UK govt are forcing conversion (medical detransition) for trans minors.

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

UPDATE: Nine. 9 countries. Sweden passed the threshold *while I was writing that last post*.

The "end of the collection period" is May 17 (so seven hours from now… plus 24 if the person who told me it's *EOD* May 17 is correct) so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the numbers and convince EU Parliament you're serious. Also:

- If 4,343 Italians sign, it's ten countries endorsing
- 5,308 Austrians makes it eleven
- 6,794 from Portugal makes it twelve

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

ANOTHER UPDATE: About three minutes ago on the website, France literally hit 1000% support for the anti-"Conversion Therapy" initiative. France really showed up here, with ten times the threshold support FR is literally half the supporters on this initiative. Apparently the people of France really, REALLY don't want their trans friends medically tortured

(if this is a boost, see upthread for explanation)

There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home ) asking the EU parliament to ban "conversion therapy" (pseudo-medical efforts to "cure" queers). It's at 1.2 million votes over 1 million; surplus votes are good because some votes may be disqualified, so EU nationals, it's still worth voting!

One thing I notice, it looks like DENMARK and CROATIA are *so* close to passing— under 1000 votes each. Does anyone here know how to inject a message in the Danish internet?

Dear Croatia:

Thank you <3

Sune Auken May 17

@mcc We’re trying.

@SuneAuken Thank you

@mcc
#denmark / #danmark and #croatia / #hrvatska ?

Anton 🇺🇦🇪🇺May 17

@mcc I gave it a shot: https://mastodon.online/@atjn/114524024820928947

Seems like the Danish channels are already flooded with posts about it, maybe there arent enough danes on Mastodon yet?

Anton 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@atjn@mastodon.online)

Hvis du synes at det skal være ulovligt at torturere transkønnede i EU, så skynd dig ind og stem her: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home Vi mangler kun 1.200 stemmer for at nå spærregrænsen i Danmark, og der er 6 timer tilbage! #dkpol

Mastodon

@atjn Or maybe we've just flooded the Danish part of Mastodon, yeah :) Maybe everyone likely to see it has already voted.

@mcc Do you have a link to these stats please?

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

Hover your mouse over the countries on the map

nonobstant May 16

@fox @mcc when you go on the petition page, on desktop (don’t see it on mobile), you have the map

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

@nononymous @fox on my phone I can get the map by tapping the menu in my browser and selecting "request desktop site". Then just tapping the countries gives me stats.

verified_transgender

@mcc @nononymous @fox to just see the stats without the map you can just click "show all countries", which gives a list.

Minnà Pandora May 16

@mcc it may be related to a few people with lots of followers (singers Angèle and Hoshi, but also author @bouletcorp2 ) sharing the initiative in the last remaining days. Good job indeed!

Pwassonchat the enby catboy May 16

@Pandora @mcc @bouletcorp2 Minister Gabriel Attal shared it too. I guess even political adversaries sometimes do the right thing.

@pwassonchat @Pandora @mcc @bouletcorp2 Don't care; we'll take it.

chris martens May 16

@mcc 🩵🩷🤍 it’s so nice to see some positive news like this right now

@mcc allez les frères et sœurs, du beau boulot ! 🎇

@mcc i really wasn't expecting this to pass at all

never underestimate french leftists

オチュー🕊🇵🇸May 16

@mcc "that one time I wasn't ashamed of that country"

Yellow Flag May 16

@mcc And Italy hit the threshold as well now. So it’s now nine countries. And it’s a good chunk above the required million votes. If this keeps up and there are indeed 24 more hours to go, this initiative might hit 2 million votes.

potion_genderqueer

@mcc merci beaucoup, France.

This thing has got some serious legs now... I wonder how many people heard about it _through Mastodon_? I know I did. (Sadly, not EU citizen YET, or you're bloody well right I'd've signed it, in big bold rainbow letters if possible :)

@mcc people underestimate how strong La France Insoumise, our radical left party, is. There was a massive communication to help with this initiative, and we delivered.

@kodr @mcc now we are at 1200% which is really great, but on the other hand its depressingly low (500000 or smth) incomparison to the number of french people, I would hope they simply have not seen the petition, but with all the far right morons there is still some way to go.

verified_transgender

@kodr @mcc can't believe a party would do something so political, smh

@mcc Now that's just great:

https://piaille.fr/@lecoindeslgbt/114524041704755292

"Emmanuel Macron praises the mobilization for banning conversion therapy, but forgot to tell that the homeland security minister he nominated voted against it in 2021. Not forgetting, not forgiving"

instagram post: "I salute the mobilization of european citizens to ban conversion therapies. In France, we banned them in 2022. It's a fight for freedom, dignity and respect. Together we will succeed."

Lecoindeslgbt (@lecoindeslgbt@piaille.fr)

Attaché : 2 images Emmanuel Macron félicite la mobilisation pour interdire les thérapies de conversion en Europe mais oublie de dire que le ministre de l'intérieur qu'il a nommé, Bruno Retailleau, a voté contre l'interdiction de ces tortures en 2021. Ni oubli, ni pardon.

Piaille

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial May 16

@mcc very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.

and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial May 16

@mcc ... and France crossed the 1000% mark \o/

@gsuberland Amazing

Outi 🦊🌱🌍🌈May 16

@mcc #Denmark needs about 2,200 signatures to pass

Nicolas Holzschuch May 16

@mcc The 2200 from Danemark seems like an attainable threshold too.

Erwan 🚄May 16

@nholzschuch @mcc only 260 left for Italy...

Gerrit Venema 🇪🇺🌍🍉May 16

🥳🥳🥳

Yendolosch May 16

... aaaaaand Italy made it.
Italy!
What's next? Poland?

Come on, Denmark, just 1800 votes to go!

(I can't remember /when/ I voted, just that back then, I saw no chance in hell of this ever getting the necessary support. Wow.)

Robin Adams May 16

@Yendolosch @mcc Visiting Rome for a conference right now. There are pride flags everywhere and "trans rights" and "trans rage" graffiti in the street.

Jo Shields May 16

@mcc I kinda slept on doing this, tbh

@directhex You signed it with plenty of time to spare tbh