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⚠️WARNING⚠️ certified NOT-A-SHITPOST!!

This is a petition from EU citizens, who believe conversion therapy should be explicitly illegal in the European Union. If this petition reaches 1 000 000 votes, and at least 7 EU member states have reached their own "threshold" of minimum local votes, the European Commision will be obligated to consider this. So please, if you are able, vote on this Citizen's Initiative, and share it with others! The submissions close May 17th, 2025.

Below is the description on the Initiative page:

Objectives 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.

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[-] 6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago

is this a legitimate link?

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is. europa.eu is one of the EU's domains, the ec subdomain for that is the EU Commission's, and the eci subdomain under that is for the European Citizens' Initiative (looks like just the petitions themselves are under that domain and the public index is under https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu for whatever reason)

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 8 points 3 months ago
[-] CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

Thank you for sharing this! Wouldn't have known about it without you, time to sign it

[-] dabaldeagul@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

No problem! Saw it a while ago and was reminded. Was surprised to see no one posted it in this community yet, so I took the liberty of doing it :)

[-] Frozzie@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago
[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
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