On #IDAHOT, we are standing strong with the LGBTIQ+ communities, amplifying their voices, and recommitting to a world where love is celebrated in all its forms.
That’s why we are working on the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy post-2025, set to be published by the end of the year.
This strategy will tackle discrimination and hatred based on:
🏳️🌈 sexual orientation
🏳️🌈 gender identity
🏳️🌈 sex characteristics
Diversity is our strength.
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ActuallyAutistic group As an American I am not eligible to sign this European petition to ban (anti)gay #ConversionTherapy — but if you are, please do! Autistics: please recall that the inventor of this criminal practice, Ivar Lovaas, is THE SAME PERSON who invented #ABA, the equally criminal scourge of our community. Also recall that autistics are much more likely to be #LGBTQ+ than are neurotypicals, and that gays are a lightning rod for prejudices of many kinds. Even if you personally are cishet (as I am), the enemies of #LGBTQ+ are your enemies too.
The petition is reportedly now within 20,000 votes of the 1,000,000 needed to require the European Commission to consider the ban, but voting ends in less than 48 hours. Please help this important proposal to make it over the top!
🇬🇧 If you are an EU citizen and have not signed or promoted this petition to ban conversion therapy within the EU, please do so today! (Due date to reach the quorum is today, last chance.)
🇩🇪 Wenn du EU Bürger_in bist und diese Petition für ein EU-weites Verbot von Konversionstherapien noch nicht gezeichnet und geteilt hast, tue es bitte heute noch! (Fristende zum Erreichen des Quorums ist heute, letzte Chance.)
EU citizens' initiative to ban conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ people needs to reach:
—minimum thresholds in 7 countries: ✅
—1 million total signatures: ⏳ (currently 875k)
And you can help! Sign and share this EU Citizen Initiative: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public
2 days left for 390k signatures. With the current momentum, that's doable - if everyone signs and shares!
No idea what this is about?
"Conversion Practices are interventions aimed at changing, repressing or suppressing the sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression of LGBTQ+ persons."
L’initiative citoyenne européenne pour interdire les thérapies de conversion dans l’UE est loin du total d’un million de signatures nécessaire (un peu plus d’un quart) et des 7 minimums par pays (j’ai compté 3) pour qu’elle soit considérée.
IL NE RESTE QUE 7 JOURS POUR SIGNER POUR ESSAYER DE CHANGER ÇA
Il faut non seulement plus de signatures en général, mais aussi dans des pays où le minimum n’est pas atteint (donc autre que la France) !
Signez, et surtout partagez autour des vous SURTOUT à vos autres contacts européens svp ! Exploitons les outils de l’Union Européenne autant que possible.
The European citizens’ initiative to ban conversion therapy in the EU is far from reaching the minimal requirement of 1 million signatures (it’s currently slightly above one quarter) and the minimal requirement of 7 countries meeting their threshold (I counted 3 currently) to allow its consideriation.
YOU ONLY HAVE 7 DAYS LEFT TO SIGN AND CHANGE THE OUTCOME.
We need more signatures in general, but we also specifically need signatures from countries that did not meet their threshold, so please SIGN and SHARE to all of your European contacts! Let’s make the best of the European Union tools we’re given as much as possible.