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Over one million citizens signed the petition to ban conversion practices.
We hear you.
And our reply is firm:
✋🏼These interventions must end.
Being LGBTIQ+ doesn’t need to be cured.
Yet, conversion practices, relying on the false idea that LGBTIQ+ people are sick, still exist and are causing long-lasting psychological and physical damage.
Your rights are an inseparable part of a true Union of Equality.
We won’t let you down.🏳️🌈
@EUCommission that’s how i want my government to communicate with us the people 🥰🇪🇺✊
@EUCommission I just read something else about that; it seems we're not going to ban, but we'll ask nicely ?
@EUCommission As a queer person, I can get behind this message!
But again, as a queer person, you are in the process of creating an awful situation with the #ageverification laws. Teens should be able to access information about LGBTQ+ topics without even fearing that it might be logged and tied to their ID. This is one of the many reasons why IF the #EUDI wallet needs to exist at all, ZKPs and offline operation MUST be a requirement and the standard before release - safety by technical design!
@EUCommission
By conversion practices, you mean converting from one gender to another?
If a person is an adult, why do you care what they do to their bodies? Isn't it transphobic?
@EUCommission They are psychobabble nonsense. Like cures for gays, back in the day. Remember Alan Turing.
@EUCommission should have said: lgbtq+ not a disease. Next line: ban all "cures". Saying conversion therapy is not a cure one might imply that other things are. Sloppy work again
Hello @joyandsadness
Being LGBTIQ+ doesn’t need to be cured.
We also stated this in the text above the poster, but we thank you for your feedback on our visual communication. We will bear it in mind for the future.
Here we go again... 🤦🏽♂️
You did not stated that.
As has been pointed out here:
https://mastodon.social/@lxsameer/116567751304259850
Seriously, a RIGOROUS social network account for the #EU would revise the poster BEFORE posting it, and ask some LGTBIQ+ organizations if they see anything wrong. They would spotted the problem immediately.
To reiterate you are implying there is other types of cure, and beign LGTBIQ+ is an illness.
What it's sick is that ban this therapies has not be considered until the citizens did a public collection of firms.
How long is going to take you to consider attacks to the LGTBIQ+ citizens a HATE CRIME, punishable with the highest jail periods?.
This two should be MANDATORY for any country that wants to stay or join the EU.
No more discrimination allowed for us in the EU country members.
@EUCommission ban them for minors, fine. Let adults do what they want to do though. Don't try to limit my freedom where this freedom is not affecting others in any negative way.
@EUCommission Well, is it already banned and the ban enforced?
If not, you are still letting us all down!
BTW, maybe get a bit informed on the language to use!
@AngelaScholder @EUCommission They can't enforce it, that is the weakness of the commission. Only the member states can enforce it. But the commission will write a formal recommendation to the member states to adopt such a ban. Its sad, that even that recommendation is still in the future, considering how much even just the idea behind such "therapies" (Better: Torture) violates the human rights in all EU countries.
Hello @urwumpe, @AngelaScholder!
We considered several options, and, although a Recommendation is a non-binding legal act, it is the best and most effective instrument to achieve the objective of the ECI. That’s because banning conversion practices by means of criminal law is a competence of EU countries. Some countries have already done so. We are committed to supporting EU countries who are in the process of banning conversion practices and encourage others who wish to start the process. 🌈
@EUCommission
I think this poster has a big issue. The sentence “Conversion practices are not a cure”, implies that there is a cure, but this one is not one. And having a cure implies that you are talking about an illness. So even by using such a sentence, you are giving in to the idea of “it” being an illness, which I suppose your intentions are the opposite.
@EUCommission You are using the linked in link shortener.
Hello @nikthechampiongr!
The link shortener used here is our own. It can only shorten URLs on the europa.eu domain.
If you prefer to access this site without a shortened link, here you go: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1070
@EUCommission @nikthechampiongr but is there a reason why you're using them...? Because mastodon doesn't care (max char length of a post) if it's a short or long link
@EUCommission Yes ! Do ban conversion therapies.
Also ban Frontex, cheers.
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