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

@mcc bitte #deutschland

@mcc I did sign it just today (from germany) not much more I can do other than boostin lol

@stefan Thank you for signing!

saxnot ➡️ HOA, GPN May 16

@stefan @mcc i also signed!

i sent it to my local poly group

Lydia RIEDEL-TRAMSEK May 16

@mcc I think it would be easier to collect votes if you added short information, how this therapy works and what it means for further life, how people concerned feel afterwards. This is not known in general.

@Tabby_Schaf @mcc This is a valid point. I shared this in some groups, a few people didn’t even know what conversion therapy is. At first, they mocked the title, but after I explained it, some of them changed their minds (not all, but at least a few did).

@mcc It's at 23h59 tomorrow, according to many different sources including the petition organizers.

saxnot ➡️ HOA, GPN May 16

@tarneo @mcc how many days did we already have? is it usual for these things to succeed?

@saxnot As you can see at the linked site, the collection period started a year ago. But it gained a lot of momentum in recent weeks and days, so it's possible they'll crack the million in time.

Dread Pirate John Scab🚫May 16

Yes it seemed ignored to death until recently

@saxnot @mcc The petition has been online for a year (this is the time window for signatures). But right now, we're seeing signature rates of 8 signatures per second, giving us good chances to succeed (according to my own very unscientific calculations, so take them with a grain of salt and don't lean back from promoting the petition or the calculations will become false !).

@saxnot @mcc Also, please don't quote me on this. If you want to tell others about this, either boost these two posts (including this one), or just don't. We'll all thank you 🙂

@saxnot @mcc Also remember that the night gap exists, since this is just Europe-wide 😉

@tarneo Tomorrow meaning the end of may 17?

@mcc Yes

@tarneo Thanks

@mcc Germany has gone from 75% yesterday to 93% now. Fewer than 4500 signatures needed ...

Niko Trimmel May 16

@ppscrv @mcc there are already enough countries above threshold, it wont matter whether Germany reaches 99% or 150%.. the important thing is getting the remaining 200.000 signatures overall from the entire EU

@nitrml A good and important point. I just want DE to get there, because it is where I live and I want to see the map change.

@ppscrv @nitrml yeah, I only called attention to Germany because Mastodon has a very large German contingent— I was being just a little jokey with my wording

@mcc @nitrml The map looks nicer. I'd like Sweden to make it, too; but the 1000000 is the target and it is getting close ...

Mondanzo May 16

@mcc not necessarily on this site. But there has been an Instagram story going around calling to action to sign it and last time yesterday I saw it it had 5k+ shares. So maybe it'll grow a bit more (especially around queer and kinksters it did).

@mcc less than 200k now!

@mcc it's also important** to mention that this is an official EU website, they already have the data you have to give them to sign - it's not like it's some mid shadiness proxy petition site

**maybe lowering activation energy for signature

Giselavbl May 16

@mcc Come on #Germany and #Portugal! It would be disappointing if we do not reach the threshold and the petition does not make it to the European Commission. It took 361 days to make 500000 people sign and it took two days for 300000 extra. I think it's possible to reach 1000000 today!

David Fleetwood - RG Admin May 16

@Giselavbl @mcc Do we have to be citizens? I'm a legal resident of Portugal but not a citizen...

Giselavbl May 16

@reflex Yes I think you have to be a citizen of the EU

Ralf Stubner May 16

@mcc Germany reached the quorum a few minutes ago!

@mcc Fake news - Germany has made it!

@mcc steadily increasing at a rate of 500 votes/minute, IF this keeps up, it'll be done in around 5h :o

Of course keeping it up requires everyone's support in shouting it from the rooftops

Dom Arbuthnott May 16

@mcc I would imagine 23.59 CET (11.59pm Central Europe time) on Saturday 17 May

Princess Dalius May 16

@mcc
I'm confused. The image says "minimum threshold in at least 7 countries", and on the map there are 7 countries colored as "have reached the threshold".
Sure, every vote counts, but I see no urgency for Germany in particular.
Am I mistaken?

@dalius_berger @mcc Even though Germany has passed its threshold, signatures from Germany still count!

We must reach a total of 1 mio for success.

There're only 47.000 missing at this time (14:18) and it doesn't mapper from which country the come.

So if you haven't already signed: Do it now, activate all your friends.

@mcc have just signed, from #Belgium

ednl 🇪🇺May 16

@mcc Yeah it's maddening that the exact closing time is not posted on the website. In normal business, I would assume that "deadline 17 May" means: submit by 16 May 23:59. But I have seen some people post with apparent confidence that it's 17 May 23:59.

(CEST? CET? Le sigh.)

_L4NyrlfL1I0 May 16

Nur noch heute und morgen: Petition gegen Conversion Therapy! Viele Unterschriften braucht es nicht mehr!

Thomas Tanghus May 16

@mcc 50K in 3 hours so should be possible before midnight
https://freeradical.zone/@tanghus/114516334851907351

Thomas Tanghus (@tanghus@freeradical.zone)

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io 821K, so close with one day left

Free Radical

Xerz 💗May 16

@mcc the lesson, kids, is that society as a whole is an entity with ADHD, it will leave things for later and react very,very late — but just sometimes, it will go absolutely wild and passionate about it

@mcc Unfortunately I can’t sign myself—thanks, Brexit—but I’m definitely watching with interest.

icaria36 🎶May 16

@mcc Thank you for your help promoting!

Amazing, more than 900.000 signatures. Hundreds of thousands have signed this week.

EU citizens: IT REALLY TAKES ONE MINUTE TO SIGN. Just your name and your ID number. No registration, no electronic ID, nothing. DO IT NOW because the deadline is tomorrow.

Mer-fOKxTOwl May 16

@icaria36 @mcc aparently it depends on country what data it needs for signing.

for germany i needed name, adress and birth date. not the id number.

but yes its not much you need to enter.

mirabilos May 16

@mcc this is not a website

@mirabilos You're not a website

Connor Cadellin May 16

@mcc France at 880% making everyone else look bad, hot damn

Dec.tar.gz May 16

@cadellin @mcc
France might make 1000%

«ALLEZ LES BLEUX!»

Cato, registered LynxⓁ May 16

@mcc 🎉

Sören Meyer-Eppler May 16

Some Kind Of Garf May 16

@mcc 31k away from the million! Also, I don't know where to see that map, but I hope Sweden's got their shit together by now

lpbkdotnet May 16

@mcc would be amazing to see this get over the line in time for #Eurovision

AidanK 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️May 16

@lpbkdotnet @mcc
Now only six and a half thousand votes left, needed to get it over the line! From two hundred thousand this morning!!

@mcc Thanks for the reminder. Done. :)

@luke Thank you!

@mcc You don't need to sign up for an account or anything.

It literally takes only a minute to enter your information so they can check if you're actually a real person.

I find this important to mention with these things.

Dec.tar.gz May 15

@yora @mcc
It doesn't ask for an email address or phone number.

Schafstelze 🎗🖤May 15

@mcc If someone doesn't know if s*he already signed (like me), no prob, just try again, it will tell you if you already did