last week, anti-trans laws were passed in Portugal.
parliament revoked the 2018 law that gave us self-determination of legal gender and change of name.
in addition they also passed UK-style censorship laws banning schools from talking about gender, and UK-style laws banning the prescription of puberty blockers and hormones to trans children.
this is the first time Portugal has taken away human rights since it became a democracy in the 1970s.
@typeswitch thank you! This really sucks :(
One of the reasons I was glad to move to Portugal in 2020 was this stuff seemed to be moving in the right direction here.
@typeswitch yeah, I agree - that’s got to be the hope. The presidential elections were pretty scary but the second round was definitively in favour of “not Chega” so I’m hoping that’s something.
Madeira (where I live) was scarily close though.
The law allowing free determination has been revoked, but this will hopefully cause backlash from the medical community who now have to approve every "request".
The censorship laws will still have to go through a freedoms and rights committee and have approval from the President, so still some hope they won't pass.
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