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coochiequeens · 11 months
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Is it really LGBTQ+ dropping in approval or is the TQ+Approval is dropping and the LGB is being dragged down in the backlash? And this article quoted someone from Mermaids?🙄
The UK has once again fallen further down a major ranking of LGBTQ-friendly countries in Europe.
In 2014, the UK ranked number one out of 49 countries on the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association’s (ILGA-Europe) annual Rainbow Map.
But today, things are different. The UK has plummeted down the rankings and, according to this year’s Rainbow Map, is now ranked number 17.
Last year, the international LGBTQ+ rights group placed the UK at number 14, meaning it has fallen down three spots.
While the UK’s points are the same as last year (53.39%), ILGA-Europe stressed, the nation tumbled because other European countries have left it behind.
Ireland (53.67%), Germany (55%) and Greece (56%) have all leapfrogged over the UK since 2022.
Since 2009, ILGA-Europe has ranked each country out of 100. A score of 0% means it grossly violates human rights, while 100% means they do anything but.
The group looks at all the puzzle pieces that make up LGBTQ+ rights: equality and non-discrimination, family, hate crime and hate speech, legal gender recognition, intersex bodily integrity, civil society space, and asylum.
Malta is today top of the list, with a score of 89%, with Belgium (76%), Denmark (75%) and Spain (74%) all not far behind.
The worst countries for LGBTQ+ people in Europe are Azerbaijan (2%), Turkey (4%), and Armenia (8%). Each country has been at the bottom for the last two years, though Armenia has clocked a few more points for throwing out its ban on queer men donating blood.
The UK, ILGA-Europe found, is missing a few puzzle pieces. 
It pointed to the still lacking conversion therapy ban, which has been ‘stalled’ for years and shot with loopholes; the next to no recognition for intersex people and a surge of ‘anti-trans rhetoric’ clogging the country’s press.
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Politicians, too, the group noted in an earlier accompanying report. Trans people were excluded from a long-sought conversion therapy ban, while prime minister Rishi Sunak said ‘trans women are not women’ in an October debate.
Trans rights are increasingly in tatters, ILGA-Europe adds. Efforts to reform gender recognition law have been snuffed out, gender-affirming healthcare is spotty at best and trans-inclusive education is now being targeted.
Plans to off-shore some asylum seekers to Rwanda will imperil already vulnerable LGBTQ+ migrants fleeing from poverty and persecution, the report added.
Robbie de Santos, a communications and external affairs director for LGBTQ+ charity Stonewall, told Metro.co.uk: ‘The UK Government could once lay claim to having world-class laws for LGBTQ+ people – but no more. 
‘This year’s report shows that our European neighbours continue to surge ahead while the UK stagnates.’
Mermaids, a trans youth charity, says that behind the Rainbow Map’s percentages and bullet points are real LGBTQ+ people living in the UK.
‘We hear every day how these shifts are making life harder for trans youth and their families, who just want to live their lives without shame or discrimination,’ a spokesperson for the charity told Metro.co.uk.
Jayne Ozanne, a former LGBTQ+ government advisor who quit over its handling of conversion therapy, adds: ‘The UK government should be deeply ashamed that on their watch the UK is plummeting down the European ranking scale on LGBQT+ human rights.’
Rubbing salt to the wound, on the same day the Rainbow Map dropped, the UN’s human rights agency issued a preliminary assessment of LGBTQ+ rights in the UK.
Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the UN independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, visited the UK from April 24 to May 5.
During his time there, Madrigal-Borloz said he saw how ‘abusive’ rhetoric from politicians and the press has snowballed into rising anti-LGBTQ+ violence, he said in remarks shared by the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner.
‘All of this is attributed – by a wide range of stakeholders – to the toxic nature of the public debate surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity,’ he said.
‘Waiting lists for gender-affirming treatment at the NHS continue to be years-long, and current initiatives risk erosion of achievements in comprehensive sex education,’ Madrigal-Borloz added.
Alarm bells rang for Madrigal-Borloz when the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Britain’s equalities watchdog, called on the minister of equalities Kemi Badenoch to swap out ‘sex’ for ‘biological sex’ in the Equality Act last month.
Meeting with EHRC officials last Thursday, Madrigal-Borloz was ‘shocked’ that the EHRC lacked a clear-cut definition for ‘biological sex’ despite advocating for it (the law doesn’t have one either).
An EHRC spokesperson told Metro.co.uk: ‘As we did in our conversation with Mr Madrigal-Borloz, we completely reject the assertion that the objective of our advice to government was to lessen human rights protections.
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ukrfeminism · 2 years
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Plans to ban so-called conversion therapy in England and Wales have been abandoned by the government.
According to NHS England, conversion therapy tries to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity.
The ban was announced in the Queen's Speech in May 2021.
But a government spokesperson said it had instead "decided to proceed by reviewing how existing law can be deployed more effectively".
It would also explore "other non-legislative measures" to prevent conversion therapy, they added.
But Labour's Anneliese Dodds tweeted that it was an "outrageous decision".
"A government that believes conversion therapy is acceptable in 21st Century Britain is no friend of the LGBT+ community," the shadow women and equalities secretary said.
And Liberal Democrat equalities spokesperson Wera Hobhouse said it was "giving the green light to a form of torture in the UK".
"This is an utter betrayal of the LGBT+ community."
Jayne Ozanne, chair of the #BanConversionTherapy coalition and conversion therapy survivor told the BBC that the news "emboldens perpetrators and allows them to act with impunity".
"It lets them know that the government is on their side and does not want to hold them to account," she said.
She called it a betrayal of those who bravely told their stories in the hope the prime minister would act. "I do not understand why he is throwing young LGBT people under the bus," she said.
In 2018, Theresa May's government promised to end conversion therapy as part of its LGBT equality plan.
The promise was bought forward by Boris Johnson. In July 2020, he said the practice was "absolutely abhorrent" and "[had] no place in this country".
In May 2021, the Queen's Speech reiterated that measures would be "bought forward" to ban the practice.
Liz Truss, in her role as minister for women and equalities, said after the monarch's speech: "As a global leader on LGBT rights, this government has always been committed to stamping out the practice of conversion therapy."
But she also stated that the ban would only happen following a consultation seeking "further views from the public and key stakeholders".
Some groups, including the Evangelical Alliance, which says it represents 3,500 churches, say a ban on conversion therapy could infringe on traditional religious teachings or restrict religious freedoms.
However many other religious leaders support a ban.
Analysis
By Josh Parry, LGBT producer
The mood music amongst the LGBT+ community is one of shock, but not necessarily surprise.
Ever since plans to ban conversion therapy practices were announced in 2018, there have been several delays, a number of consultations and a lot of public debate.
It comes at a particularly embarrassing time for No 10.
Just weeks ago, the Council of Europe raised grave concerns about the UK's direction of travel on LGBT+ rights and this summer the government is going to host its first ever international LGBT+ conference.
U-turning on this issue is due to leave a dark cloud hanging over them when it's likely to be attended by nations who outlawed conversion years ago.
The leaked document supposedly predicts a "noisy backlash from LGBT groups and some parliamentarians" - but if the immediate reaction is anything to go by, that's quite the understatement.
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mariacallous · 1 year
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The Church of England currently teaches two totally incompatible visions of God. On the one hand, there is a gospel of grace, where the love of God is unconditional and available to all. On the other, there is a God who places restrictions on that grace and asks the church to act as the gatekeeper. The latter teaches that if someone like me, a lesbian, has sex then I will go to hell – a truth as central to this branch of faith as believing in the virgin birth or the resurrection.
For years, the church’s solution to this contradiction has been to kick the can marked “LGBT+ relationships” down the road, and the “historic” proposals announced last month on sexuality were no exception. They continue to embed discrimination by refusing to recognise civil marriage as “holy matrimony” and only offer token prayers of blessing to gay couples, cunningly blessing the individuals rather than their union. There are also many shades of grey – especially as to whether our unions can actually now be consummated. All this from our established church, the official state church that operates thanks to delegated powers from parliament, which continues to be allowed to discriminate against those it serves.
This is an unholy fudge. It is a mess designed to try to keep us all happy but that has only succeeded in upsetting everyone. Progressives are angry – they know that while discrimination remains embedded in our teaching, LGBT+ people’s lives will continue to be severely impacted and pose a major safeguarding risk. Conservative Christians are miserable, issuing a statement saying that any hint of change will mean that they will call on their churches to leave the established church.
The church cannot be allowed to continue kicking the can down the road. That is why I have tabled an amendment at the General Synod next week, requesting that provisions for equal marriage legislation be brought back to the synod at its next meeting in July. I am not alone – following her tea with the archbishop of Canterbury, Sandi Toksvig has concluded that “the present position is untenable”. Parliament was also given a warning by Peter Bottomley, the father of the House, during an urgent question last week, when he said that “the Church of England needs to wake up”. Even Penny Mordaunt, leader of the House of Commons, has said as much in a letter to her bishop.
The proverbial can in this scenario is the LGBT+ community and our relationships, and we get badly hurt every time it is kicked. Current church teaching has already cost far too many LGBT+ lives. It has led to countless LGBT+ teenagers being rejected by their families while others are crushed by heavy weights of shame and guilt. A large number have left the church, such as Wes Streeting MP, who last week in parliament told his own story of rejection and hurt.
Against this backdrop, my synod amendment also proposes that we remove the apology that the bishops have tabled in their motion, which seeks to “lament and repent” for the harm that the church has “caused and continues to cause” LGBT+ people. I believe this would be better until such a time that this discrimination, the “kicking”, embedded in the current proposals ends. Put simply, it is sheer hypocrisy for the church to apologise while at the same time wilfully enabling the abuse to continue. It is also hypocritical for the archbishop of Canterbury to say that he “joyfully celebrates” the provision of prayers of blessing for gay couples while refusing to say the prayers himself and while stating that he would rather the church be disestablished than split over same-sex marriage.
The powers that be in the Church of England would like us to accept that this is just an issue of differing “points of view” with each having equal merit, despite the harm that is inflicted on the lives of LGBT+ people. It won’t work. Those vigorously opposed to equal marriage will never accept there is a diversity of views on this. To them, prayers, blessings, marriage are all the same – if any ground is conceded then all is lost. That is why the matter needs settling now, once and for all.
I understand it was political expediency rather than doctrinal theology that lay behind the bishops’ proposals, as they did not believe that a vote on equal marriage would get sufficient support in the synod. Rather than capitulating to these fears our bishops – and indeed all those on the synod – need to show some spiritual leadership and embrace the Anglican moral tradition of conscience, making room for a plurality of views.
Unless we do, I foresee this will be the hill on which the Church of England, quite literally, will die.
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The Bible versus homosexuality---podcast
Robert Gagnon debates gay activist Jayne Ozanne on Bible vs homosexuality
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reverendcanonbarry · 1 year
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“It is deeply concerning to see such a rigidity of thinking that does not allow for reason, science or human suffering to shape and refine religious teaching! It is this that the history books will recount and question – why weren’t people’s hearts broken by the evidence of harm that was so clearly being perpetrated? Why were people who believed in the primacy of love so cruel?”
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dragonboy-troll · 2 years
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cloudtales · 2 years
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Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser
Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser
Boris Johnson’s U-turn over protecting trans people in the conversion therapy ban is an attempt to appeal to Tory heartlands, says Jayne Ozanne Source: OpenDemocracy: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/tories-attacking-trans-rights-to-court-transphobic-voters-says-ex-adviser/
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nedsecondline · 2 years
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Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser | openDemocracy
Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser | openDemocracy
Boris Johnson is attacking transgender people because he believes it appeals to Tory voters, a former LGBTQ government adviser has claimed. The government has been condemned by LGBTQ rights groups for excluding transgender people from its ban on so-called conversion therapy. Speaking to openDemocracy, Jayne Ozanne – a conversion therapy survivor and chair of the #BanConversionTherapy coalition –…
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yourdailyqueer · 3 years
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Jayne Ozanne
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: N/A
Ethnicity: White - British
Occupation: Activist, writer
Note: She has been heavily involved in campaigning for equal rights for the LGBTI community. She has been described as “one of the Church of England’s most influential evangelical campaigners”.
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smallmouthfrog · 3 years
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There hasn't been any coverage of this in the press but on 8th March there was a debate in the UK Parliament about the long delayed ban on conversion therapy. The ban has huge cross party support. The government keeps saying it will introduce the ban but we've been 1000 days waiting and this week's debate was intended to give them a kick up the arse. Instead, we got our Equalities Minister saying "It is wonderful to see so many people united against this abhorrent practice, and I look forward to many more debates on the issue."
More debates.
MORE DEBATES.
This government cares so little about LGBT+ rights that even its own LGBT+ advisor, an actual Tory, has shown some integrity and resigned in despair.
So yeah, fuck the Tories.
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gwydionmisha · 3 years
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To begin with Christianity, I wanted to show some of the detrimental effects that this church based discrimination can have. While many in the church would claim that practices such as conversion therapy are not discrimination, most reputable people in the psychological community would deeply disagree. Looking at the experience of the woman in this article, things like this can lead to a staggering amount of mental health issues including suicidal thoughts and actions within the LGBTQ+ community, especially in the youth. Homosexuality is simply a part of who a person is, it is not something to be healed from. Framing it in this light makes it so that people feel like there is something innately wrong with them, making them ashamed, embarrassed, and secretive about their sexuality.
These practices do nothing but abuse the people on the receiving end. The psychological community agrees that sexuality is not an affliction, nor something that can be changed through prayer. Yet, these churches keep pushing the discriminatory practice, promising people to “heal” them from something they never would have seen as wrong had the church not interfered in their life. A church should never insert itself into the sexuality of one of its members.
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automatismoateo · 2 years
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Equalities minister promises UK conversion therapy ban will cover trans people and religious abuse. via /r/atheism
Equalities minister promises UK conversion therapy ban will cover trans people and religious abuse.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/03/04/conversion-therapy-equalities-minister-mike-freer-jayne-ozanne/
“As the minister makes clear, these are not ‘everyday religious practices’ but are clearly harmful and must be outlawed.
“Those wishing to continue with this spiritual abuse have been put on notice that their actions will no longer be tolerated and that they will face the full weight of the law. That said, we still have major concerns about the loophole of supposed ‘consent’, which we continue to press the government on.”
Submitted March 05, 2022 at 03:43PM by Leeming (From Reddit https://ift.tt/Eg794ab)
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aymentanazefti · 3 years
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SPECIAL EDITION - Clubhouse Interview with Jayne Ozanne http://www.allnewsmag.com/2021/05/special-edition-clubhouse-interview.html
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