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:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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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Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • • •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:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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Salticidea, Charles ☭ says trans rights und stevE 🌼 haben dies geteilt.
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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.
mastodon.social/@mcc/114490365…
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.
mastodon.social/@mcc/114490365…
mcc
2025-05-11 17:25:37
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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eci.ec.europa.euKatharina Debus mag das.
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Katharina Debus und Anna haben dies geteilt.
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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" ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352… ) 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.
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" ( mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352… ) 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.
mcc
2025-05-15 14:37:10
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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 hat dies geteilt.
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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eci.ec.europa.euJaddy mag das.
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Aglaia89 🏳️⚧️, Lena Schimmel, Kathrin Passig, Eckes, Recovered Expert, Jaddy und Alexander Kknli haben dies geteilt.
Jaddy
Unbekannter Ursprungsbeitrag • •@Princess Dalius @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.
trissc̈hen (old account) mag das.
Princess Dalius
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •Sure, every vote counts, but I see no urgency for Germany in particular.
Am I mistaken?
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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.
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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eci.ec.europa.euKatharina Debus mag das.
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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 hat dies geteilt.
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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Als Antwort auf mcc • • •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)
mcc
Als Antwort auf mcc • • •There are ~7 hours left in the EU citizens initiative ( eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/… ) 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?
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