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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in reply to mcc • • •Signed, but for the Netherlands it's a pain in the ass. Like 10 steps, jump to Dutch ID app, need to scan ID with NFC, multiple redirects back to browser.
I wonder if it's easier for other countries?
Admittedly I've got Firefox with NoScript set as my default browser making it even harder.
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in reply to mcc • • •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.
siorc.eu/notes/a4885f3ath9b00p…
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.
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in reply to mcc • • •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:
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in reply to 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.
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in reply to 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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in reply to 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.
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in reply to 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.
Schafstelze 🎗🖤
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in reply to 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
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in reply to 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
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in reply to mcc • • •Lambda
in reply to 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
Bernd Paysan R.I.P Natenom 🕯️
in reply to mcc • • •The process of signing it is a bit offensive, the EU wants to read your ID card…
I was also confused by the text, because it is so broad that the “or others” include the hormonal therapies for trans people, which are not pseudo-medicine, but they do alter the gender expression of these people (as desired).
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in reply to 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.)
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in reply to mcc • • •Nur noch heute und morgen: Petition gegen Conversion Therapy! Viele Unterschriften braucht es nicht mehr!
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in reply to 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.
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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.
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in reply to 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
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in reply to mcc • • •very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.
and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%
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in reply to 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)
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Hover your mouse over the countries on the map
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in reply to Fox • • •@fox when you go on the petition page, on desktop (don’t see it on mobile), you have the map
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in reply to 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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in reply to mcc • • •I gave it a shot: mastodon.online/@atjn/11452402…
Seems like the Danish channels are already flooded with posts about it, maybe there arent enough danes on Mastodon yet?
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Thank you ❤
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in reply to mcc • • •... 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.)
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in reply to mcc • • •I’m having a problem understanding your convoluted grammer.
Is it go for therapy or no go.
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in reply to ideaPDish • • •@ipd I'm sorry, there is a 500 character limit and it makes my text awkward…
The proposed law bans therapists from trying to turn LGBTQs into straights.
ideaPDish
in reply to mcc • • •I like that law. Personal choice and autonomy. Is it passing or not, so far?
Spectrum plus you tube interruption with psyop ads == brain injury and diminished mental capacity today. Or you got any spare spoons?
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in reply to mcc • • •I just wanted to say that I woke up today and saw this post (8am CEST). I thought: "well that's a cool initiative. I guess I'll sign this. Also gonna tell my (50% queer) friend group and family about this, but let's face it: 200.000 Signatures in less than a day? Not gonna happen."
And now, we're not that far from hitting TWICE AS MUCH signatures. This kind of made my day.
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in reply to mcc • • •not-so-funny sidenote: there's a FI citizen petition for the same subject now in the parliament, but as we are saddled with at least one religious party in power, they're just stalling the handling. Why? Because they can.
And also because they are thoroughly foul people as well, but I guess that was obvious already.
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in reply to mcc • • •Thank you. We quite like it. 💚
And we stand corrected. We were under the impression this is something which was only going on for a few weeks. Our pessimism got the better of us.
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in reply to mcc • • •I've tried before to sign European petitions, never got it to work yet
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in reply to mcc • • •I would but my Nationality is British and that excludes me even though I have left the sinking island and have lived in Europe for many years.
Stupid petitions.
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in reply to Vick Forcella ™🌈🌳❄️☑️:verifi • • •@VickForcella hm, you mean like the server is down?
someone else said they tried to vote and got an error, but then tried a few minutes later and it worked.
thanks anyway!
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in reply to Adri • • •@ArbreAdri @VickForcella So that's two people so far who were not able to get the Dutch auth system to work…
Don't feel obligated, but would you mind contacting the "Contact us" link at this page citizens-initiative.europa.eu/… (nederlandse version here I think? citizens-initiative.europa.eu/… ) and letting them know your experience? 2 votes on 1 petition aren't such a big deal, but it seems like the site should not be breaking for certain countries selectively…
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in reply to mcc • • •WAIT. YOU STILL ALLOW CONVERSION THERAPY IN THE EU? Holy shit. I’m surprised tbh.
Yes. Rid your continent of that cruel scourge.
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in reply to mcc • • •For French nationals, this is very easy for us (you do not need an eID). It took me exactly 3min from a phone.
So, no excuse ;)
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in reply to mcc • • •Done! One more vote from the Netherlands.
And while you're there, don't forget to leave a comment that X/Twitter is a threat to EU democracy and tell them to remove the link to share on X.
Raul Portales
in reply to mcc • • •when I read conversion therapy my first thought was mental health support for people that are transitioning, because it's a stressful thing to do.
Turns out it's almost the opposite.
I guess I'm too naive for this society.
Ronald vd W.
in reply to mcc • • •Signed from The Netherlands.
Bit of a hassle but not too bad; then again, I have the DigiD app on my phone, linked to my ID.
Vincent 🌻🇪🇺 en 🌹☘️
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in reply to mcc • • •Hendrik Jan Douwes
in reply to mcc • • •I've tried to sign this several times now. I did not succeed.
That is, I wanted to use an eID, (Dutch DigiD) and it won't let me log in, resulting in a time-out error. The culprit is not on the side of the eID, with other services it works fine.
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I'm boosting with tags to increase visibility.
Every #EuropeanUnion citizen's signature helps toward the one million minimum. Signatures are most needed from #Begium, #Denmark, #Germany, #Netherlands (might be giving signatories problems), #Slovenia, and #Spain for at least four of these to meet the threshold of support.
End of the collection period: May 2025
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in reply to mcc • • •I was reading the petition demands that are rightly detailed.
I started wondering whether "Provide a clear, precise and comprehensive definition of conversion practices, which shall cover all practices that seek to change [...] a person's [...] gender identity [...]" could be misinterpreted (wilfully, perhaps) by some as including voluntarily-chosen HRT for trans people that has a positive rather than negative psychological effect, unlike what this is combatting.
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