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  • Combating rising hate against LGBTI people in Europe

    calendar27 Sep, 2021 · 3 min read · PACE anti-trans  ·
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    The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a report on the rise of hate against LGBTI people in Europe. The report, drafted by the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (CEN), calls on governments to take urgent action to combat hate crimes and discrimination against LGBTI people. Highlighting how the 'gender-critical' movement, along with a weak political response to such movements, has contributed to this escalation.
    (52) [...] “We do not believe in self-identification”. Such rhetoric – which denies trans identities – is being used to roll back the rights of trans and non-binary people and is contributing to growing human rights problems.
    [...] arguments defending freedom of expression have been – and are still being – used as a tool to justify transphobic rhetoric, further penalising and harming already marginalised trans people and communities.
    The ‘gender-critical’ movement, which wrongly portrays trans rights as posing a particular threat to cisgender women and girls, has played a significant role in this process [...]
    Trans healthcare is also being erroneously portrayed as a form of LGB conversion therapy.
    Such anti-trans narratives, wrongly portraying trans rights as a threat to women and to others’ rights and insisting on binary categorisations of sex and gender [...]

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    Added: 11 Apr, 2023