LGBTQ+

Television and radio are already heavily monitored and censored. Next up: the digital arena, including social media.

Trans women are women! Also I like girls

Crossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/27169714

Very proud of my fellow Europeans for standing behind this initiative to uphold fundamental rights and to call for greater protections for marginalised people.

You can still sign too to add more weight!

publicação cruzada de: https://fosstodon.org/users/dellagustin/statuses/114516891591313964

Signature collection to BAN CONVERSION PRACTICES in European Union ends tomorrow (May 17)❗

This is in support of the LGBTQ+ community.
The signature collection is still ~113000 votes short, and many countries did not pass the threshold yet!
Please consider signing 🖊️ and sharing 🔁 .

Any EU national, including living abroad, can vote, if above minimum age (18 or 16, depends on the country)

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

Does anyone of you have seen this and, if so, how was it ?

We call on the European Commission to propose a binding legal ban on conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union:

Conversion Practices are interventions aimed at changing, repressing or suppressing the sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression of LGBTQ+ persons.

Such practices, due to their discriminatory, degrading, harmful and fraudulent nature have been qualified as torture by the United Nations, and are currently being banned in a growing number of States.

The EU plays a key role in the protection of fundamental rights and should take actions to fight against all inhuman practices. The Commission should propose a directive adding conversion practices to the list of euro-crimes and/or amend the ongoing directive on equality (2008) to include a ban on these practices.

Furthermore, to fight against the legislative moratorium, the Commission should also enforce a non-binding resolution calling for a widespread ban of conversion practices in the EU.

Finally, we call on the Commission to amend the Victims’ Rights Directive to establishes minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of conversion practices.

All member states should introduce a ban on conversion practices or review their current ones.

Some hope for our trans friends

Pride month is coming up and this is a great documentary about our LGBTQ history.

Just a quick reminder - if you're an EU citizen, there are still a few days left to support the petition to ban coversion therapy in the EU.