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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Robert te Lintelo
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Unknown parent • • •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.
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.
Caitríona
2025-02-14 11:03:09
mcc
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:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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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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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
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in reply to mcc • • •well done past me
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in reply to mcc • • •I've tried before to sign European petitions, never got it to work yet
Maki
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in reply to mcc • • •Apropos of nothing, I read some real science about this stuff and there are over 40 biological sexes.
Reality doesn't get a voice.
Sune Auken
in reply to mcc • • •Owen G. Richards
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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mcc
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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.
LouD
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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.
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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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.
apfel
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mcc
in reply to apfel • • •Yora
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.
Joana Simoes
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Unknown parent • • •Meadow
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.
mcc
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
Giselavbl
in reply to mcc • • •Ralf Stubner
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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
Dom Arbuthnott
in reply to mcc • • •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).
ednl 🇪🇺
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.)
_L4NyrlfL1I0
in reply to mcc • • •Nur noch heute und morgen: Petition gegen Conversion Therapy! Viele Unterschriften braucht es nicht mehr!
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Free Radicalicaria36 🎶
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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in reply to 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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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
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
in reply to mcc • • •very few needed to get Denmark across the line too.
and France is only 400 signatures away from 1000%
Misty
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mcc
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)
mcc
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in reply to Fox • • •@fox eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Hover your mouse over the countries on the map
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eci.ec.europa.euMinnà Pandora
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Unknown parent • • •nonobstant
in reply to Fox • • •@fox when you go on the petition page, on desktop (don’t see it on mobile), you have the map
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
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eci.ec.europa.euEvan Prodromou
in reply to mcc • • •Ovidi Nawer
in reply to mcc • • •let's hope It doesn't end in a petition or a "for 2050 we aim to have 20% less convertion therapy"
Still happy to see people wants us to be safe, makes me quite a bit less worried about losing my friends
chris martens
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Unknown parent • • •Gerard Cunningham
in reply to mcc • • •slight amendment. The petition calls on the Commission to propose legislation, not the parliament.
And it is excellent news to see it reach the target.
araly
in reply to mcc • • •Gerrit Venema 🇪🇺🌍🍉
in reply to mcc • • •ideaPDish
in reply to mcc • • •I’m having a problem understanding your convoluted grammer.
Is it go for therapy or no go.
mcc
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?
mcc
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in reply to mcc • • •Yendolosch
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 • • •Yellow Flag
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in reply to mcc • • •@maccuinneagain Isn't this just how the EU works?
"The Commission is the only EU institution empowered to initiate EU legal acts. It submits proposals for EU legal acts on its own initiative, at the request of other EU institutions or following a citizens' initiative."
consilium.europa.eu/en/council…
laalsaas
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.
mcc
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in reply to Ach so... 🇺🇦 • • •mcc
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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eci.ec.europa.euSune Auken
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in reply to mcc • • •Anton 🇺🇦🇪🇺
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?
Anton 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@atjn@mastodon.online)
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in reply to mcc • • •Dear Croatia:
Thank you ❤
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