PieFed"Ban on conversion practices in the European Union" initiative still needs support
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https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home
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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I understand your concerns, but since it is an official EU platform and we have the GDPR, I don't think there's much cause for concern. Even if it uses your countries platform to verify your identity, I don't think they would be able to see which petition was signed just that you verified your identity on the platform as a whole.
In any case hope you stay safe! Yeah I'm intending on sharing it once a month till then!
signed it and made sure to spread it to most people i know in the EU. although im pretty sure most EU members already have these protections in place; (atleast in belgium we do) its good to have them EU wide.
Oh damn this needs sooo much more visibility and reach in the EU for it to have any chance to reach it's thresholds.
Signed but current support doesn’t bode well. Does anyone know of any successful campaigns of this type? Stop Killing Games has twice as many signatures but isn’t even halfway there.
The abortion one is nearing the necessary support. Otherwise, they have a list of initiatives they've already answered.
Lots of really cool stuff there, sad to see that not all of them get traction troughout the EU (tax the rich my beloved :( )
Unsure! Lets hope we can rally enough signatures! But we still have some time to share and try and gather as many as we can!
There is a therapy where I can convert to gay?
Drink more chemicals (from the water), wear outfits other than jeans and shirts, and occasionally talk about your feelings.
Keep yourself clean. Keep your room/apartment/house clean. Look happy.
People tell me this why they assume I'm gay.
Offtopic: I think this was the first time I actually used my eID I activated two years ago to log in to anything (#Neuland). Had to look up the PIN, but other than that it worked nicely.
When I moved last year, I used it to register my new address. It was the worst experience with any IT system I've ever had in my life. It was still better than waiting 3 months for an appointment and waiting another 2 hours in the citizen office.
I knew you're german only from that described experience.
Only if you live in a dysfunctional shit part.
Here you can register your new residence walk-In.
No appointment needed
Na man. Big cities is the thing where offices are understaffed. And not everybody wants to live in a small town or village where you might be able to walk-in on civil offices but have to own a car because no supermarket or workplace is in walkable distance.
Not every big city is Berlin and I have no idea where you get the idea of villages without supermarket but with a town hall from. If you're that small you're in a Verwaltungsgemeinschaft.
I'm not talking Berlin. Also, I didn't say no supermarket, I said no supermarket in walkable distance. Like the village I grew up in, 6k inhabitants, 45 minutes by foot to the next supermarket because they were all in the same location with a big parking lot. Or the next town, 20k inhabitants but one supermarket at the train station and one near each of the three bigger roads out of it and around an hour to ninety minutes walking distance between them.
I live in a Großstadt, but a functional one.
Thanks for explaining me though how it works here
For some more time intensive tasks you also need an appointment here.
But registering your residence does not, since it does make the city money and takes just a few minutes.
Also South Germany isn't completely fucked financially
There is no need for an explicit ban, as such dehumanising and abusive nonsense should already violate a dozen existing laws in any country that respects human rights.
It sounds like it does as like they say in the article the UN classify it as torture. If people ignore that and choose to torture people anyway it's probably useful to have a ban on the specific type of torture that people are trying to avoid.
I have read the Privacy statement and the content of this citizens’ initiative.
When I click on the "citizens' initiative" link it's a dead 404 link.
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There is no need to explicitly ban something that already violates existing laws. If something is classified as torture by the UN, there is no chance that it is legal in any country that recognises and protects human rights.
Those so-called "conversion therapies" should already classify as some kind of assault or coercion, and/or medical malpractise in any reasonable jurisdiction.
It looks like there is No ban on conversion therapy in many states in the US, parts of Australia, Sweden and several places in Europe, according to the map on the wiki page Legality of conversion therapy.
This is still useful to quickly show ignorant cishets outside eu that it's wrong
I have no idea what kind of newfangled insult "cishet" is, but I'd argue that if you make it a specific crime rather than prosecuting it as an ordinary, already existing crime, you are giving the perpetrators a special status, while in reality, they are just fraudulent quacks who like to assault and coerce people, which is very wrong already.
Cishet is not an insult?? It's short for cisgender and heterosexual.
If you think 'special status' is a negative call the perpetuators what you think is appropriate. But making it plainly and unambiguously illegal (as opposed to illegal if you think critically about it) is just a positive
I don't give shit about what people are doing with their gender identity as long as they're 18+
The petition calls for total ban for everyone which is utterly retarded. As much as I dislike LGBT activists, I would never sign that petition
I think you may have misread the post. What's being proposed is a ban on stuff like "pray the gay away" type conversion therapies.