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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.

OK as of last night the EU citizen petition to ban "conversion therapy" ("medical torture") on LGBTQs met its 7 countries target! (High-5 Slovenia) In the 5 days since I last posted it's jumped 250k votes to 670k votes. It's really close to its target of 1 mil. 1 day left. EU citizens can sign at:

It's 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative to ban anti-LGBT "conversion therapy" is *so close*—I think the votes *tripled* in a week?—but also there are only 18 hours left. Uh, or 32, depending on what "ends May 17" means. Sorry, I'm sleepy and on the wrong continent eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Um um wow. WOW? In JUST the time I was asleep the EU "Citizens Initiative" to ban anti-LGBT "conversion therapy" got one-quarter of its entire vote goal, meaning with 9 countries & just over a million votes it "passes" and is sent to the EU parliament. Amazing y'all eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

Did I just refer to Europe as "Y'all"? Yes. I did "Collection" ends May 17, which I'm told means end-of-day *tomorrow*, so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the score and show support for LGBTQ folks. RN Italy, Austria and Portugal are each about 5,000 votes short of endorsing

I've been seeing this and it's destroying me that I am so newly minted of a citizen that I don't have either of the ID numbers I would need to *prove* citizenship to vote in Austria the earliest they can see me about a passport is next month

*thinks* hm. I wonder if you could contact the initiative runners. Because that is an actual group, and I've never been clear if there is a separate non online petition, which might have qualification requirements more apt to you.

I think it just comes down to "I have a certification attesting to my citizenship but I don't have any of the actual bureaucratic identifiers that are used yet" sort of like if I only had a document attesting to my U.S. citizenship but hadn't gotten a Social Security number yet

1 more vote from Italy! 💪🏻