European Citizens' Initiative
eci.ec.europa.eu
Give your support !

I’m not European, so I can’t sign (I think), sharing this is the most I can do; but if you and/or someone you know is from Europe and hasn’t signed yet Please do!

EDIT: THE THRESHOLD HAS BEEN REACHED!!! LETS FUCKING GOOOOO!!!

  • @GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    33•5 days ago

    I’m pleasantly surprised to see this cross the threshold. I was kind of not expecting it to, given that it had something like 500k signatures a week ago.

    Way to go, everyone!

      • @illi@lemm.eeEnglish
        5•5 days ago

        I mean… yeah, I know, but conversion therapies? In 2025? Might as well apply leeches to cure flu

        • Skull giver
          2•5 days ago

          The problem with banning these is that most of the time, the victims aren’t being forced to go to these places. Adults are talked into it using whatever religious shaming bigots can come up with.

          When it comes to kids, you run into the issue that kids don’t have a say in their own lives (they do have rights, but they can’t easily exercise them). You can ban discrimination based on sex or gender, but you can’t easily interfere with a week-long church program for troubled youth. The state doesn’t get to dictate your religion.

          A significant portion of just about any country on earth is grossed out by the thought of homosexuality. For a large part of voters, being gay was still a crime back when they were young. Things like gay marriage are still hot topics in the EU today. On the scale of centuries of backwards abuse and scapegoating, gay rights have moved forward at lightning speed, and it’ll take a few generations for those advancements to solidify (or, in case of the US and UK, lose decades of progress to hopefully regain them in the future).

          Also, leeches are still used in medicine today, as well as ants, worms, and maggots. Not to cure the flu (unless your flu symptoms are the result of extreme iron consumption, in which case bloodletting is still necessary and leeches may keep blood flowing while doing that).

  • @cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15•5 days ago

    Now the signatures have to be verified by each member country’s authorities. Unverifiable support may bring the petition back under 1M signatures. Sign if you haven’t! Keep spreading!

    • Enkrod
      7•5 days ago

      Holy moley, I signed yesterday and was sad that it was probably not going to make the cut, but that is an INSANE explosion of signatures. 990k now, this will work!

  • WideEyedStupid
    7•5 days ago

    The load time on this is insane. But I got it signed! Not that it really helped much, both my own country and my country of residence had already reached the threshold.

    But still, it’s about time for an EU-wide ban on this barbaric shit.

  • @Thymos@lemm.ee
    5•5 days ago

    First time I’ve signed one of these. Most annoying part of the process was that Android apparently no (longer?) has a quick toggle for NFC.

    Anyway, I hope this will lead to something. If I understand it correctly one member country can still veto this, right?