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Something incredible might be happening with this initiative. I've been keeping up with it over the course of the year it's been up and slowly losing hope (50% of time elapsed and only 17% of signatures, etc.) but this week has gotten more signatures than the previous 11 months combined.
First to establish the rules: to get an official reply from the commission and possibly legislation, an initiative needs 1 million signatures within 1 year AND at least 7 different countries need to hit their threshold which is calculated based on population (idk how it's calculated but a little more than 1 in 1000 adult citizens of the country need to sign to hit its threshold). This is to ensure that not all the support for an initiative comes from one or very few countries.
Ok so here's the graph for signatures that the conversion therapy ban got over time according to the wayback machine:
The deadline is in 2 days as I write this and there's a MASSIVE last minute push! 415,223 signatures to go still but the last update to the website added about 360,000 all at once. I think it might still be possible after all.
With that newest update we now also have hit 7 different country thresholds (up from 3 before this spike). Shoutouts to France, Finland, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, and Slovenia!
Found a figure that gets updated more often! Since my last post, we gained 67,883 signatures in just shy of 8 hours. At this pace we should hit 1 million in 40 hours from now. So whether or not the initiative succeeds is going to come down to the minute of when exactly the deadline is (i dont know how to look that up, it just says May 17th)
i reblogged my post with an update when we reached the 600K like 5-6 hours ago and we're now at 660K so we actually have a pace of something like 10K per hour since. which is so freaking awesome. we can do it!!
Hello, my friend charlotte is a trans woman who is homeless and chronically ill! She is trying to save up $900 for a car, but in the meantime she needs $110 more to renew her motel this week! We have 3 days to raise this- if 11 people send $10 that’s enough! Anything helps!
Hey, there have been 0 donations and she needs to renew the motel TOMORROW! All it will take is for 20 people to send $10 and she can take care of that and get a new phone. Please help a trans woman in need!
Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor
I'm not asking for money... I'm asking for life. I'm asking for a chance to see my child open his eyes again, laugh, call for me... I'm asking for a chance to hold him without feeling his breath disappear in my hands.
My little boy, a piece of my soul, is fighting death right now. His frail body is trembling, his eyes are filled with fear, he's searching for me as if he knows the end is near... and I stand helplessly by his side, my heart crumbling, my soul torn apart a thousand times every second. The doctors said he needs urgent surgery, but death is faster than me... and money stands between me and saving him.
Imagine watching your child dying, and all your screams, tears, and pleas meaningless because you don't have the money... Imagine that life forces you to be rich to keep your children, otherwise death will take them from you mercilessly...
I am writing these words and my heart is burning, collapsing, dying before my child... Please, please, with every tear, every pain, every compassion in your hearts, help me with anything, with any amount, with any share of this appeal... Perhaps your hand will be the one that saves him before it's too late.
I don't want to lose him... I don't want to carry him to his grave knowing that the chance to save him was in your hands...
My name is Casimir, and I am organizing this fundraiser on behalf of Ahmed H… Casimir Reynolds needs your support for Help Ahmed Hammad Prov
Please, don't let me enter the darkness of eternal sadness. Don't let me live like a dead person while I bury him with my own hands...
context: the heritage foundation is trying to launder data in support of doge by sending a survey to only their supporters and using blatantly leading questions. the survey takes less than 5 minutes and they don't verify your email
please don't think you should stop helping palestinians because there is a ceasefire now. even if there is no more active bombing and shooting, people still struggle to survive. people return to their houses to see them in rubble, people still struggle to afford necessities like food, water and clothes, still have only tents over their head, and have lost their jobs with no means of income to support themselves or their family. this isn't even touching the mental turmoil people are going through which is unimaginable.
palestinians still need help. they are still struggling. so please consider helping them: donate to aboud al-qudra, a man who has lost so much family and friends, alongside his business which he has worked so hard to achieve.
even if you cannot donate, please reblog, so other people capable of doing so can find it and donate.
Hi, I am Aboud Al-Qudra, a Palestinian living in Gaza. Recentl… Abood Alqedra needs your support for Your support encourages me to move forw
€9,891/€25K goal
you can also donate to his paypal here:
Go to paypal.me/AboodAlqedra and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
if you live in the USA PLEASE read this and support the wolves and help keep them protected, contact your representative.
On Tuesday, March 25, the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries will hold a legislative hearing on several bills, two of which directly attack wolves and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
ACT NOW: Urge your representatives to vote NO on these attacks.
🚨 H.R. 845 (Rep. Lauren Boebert, CO) - This bill capitalizes on fear and misinformation to remove protections for wolves. The bill directs the Secretary of the Interior to delist the gray wolf from the ESA within 60 days of enactment by reissuing a final rule published in November 2020. The bill prevents judicial review of the delisting action.
🚨 H.R. 1897 (Rep. Bruce Westerman, AR) - This bill would drastically weaken the ESA and decrease protections for threatened and endangered species. While full bill text hasn’t been released, Rep. Westerman’s own press makes it clear: this bill prioritizes politics over science, shifting authority away from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and into the hands of state governments that may not prioritize recovery of endangered and threatened species.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE OPEN FOR GENDER IDENTIFIERS ON US PASSPORTS
Right now, you can submit a comment for consideration on the proposed changes to US Passport law that will include requiring a change from "Gender" to "Sex" on all passports and require that people identify with their sex assigned at birth.
THIS IS THE LAW THAT WOULD BAN TRANS PEOPLE FROM UPDATING THEIR IDENTIFICATION
Please take a moment to click through and submit a comment. This kind of thing is fast, easy, and is one of the many ways to show your support of the trans community to the people that need to know how many of us there are.
This is an excellent low effort way to make a clear statement to the government that you do NOT support the unnecessary and expensive process of changing everyone's passport just so that a tiny population that has done no measurable harm to society can feel afraid.
Public comments are one of the many tactics we have to show the people in power how many of us are willing to stand up and say fuck this. Stand up and say fuck this in every single place that you can.