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👋EU people: There's a citizen petition calling on the EU to ban "conversion therapy" to "cure" LGBTQ+ folks, a process people who've experienced it describe as "torture". It needs about 5x its current votes to be considered but is especially in need of voters from: Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, Belgium

Update: In the time since my last post on this petition, Ireland's gone from under 50% of needed signatures to well above 100%! España también está muy cerca ahora. The four closest countries are now: Spain at 70%, Belgium-Netherlands-Slovenia near 50%, Sweden-Denmark-Germany all hover around 35%.

EU folks: There is one week left to sign the EU citizen's initiative against "conversion therapy" of LGBTQ folks. I don't think it can hit the total threshold in that time but Spain just hit the country threshold, and Belgium and the Netherlands could still make it: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Last month the UK proclaimed the legal nonexistence of trans people in a court decision; last night Texas in the US did so by passing a law in its house of representatives. If the EU wants to send a signal it won't participate in the war on trans life, this initiative is a pretty clear way to do so.

Hells, what did I miss out of Texas recently?