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LGBTQ+ parents are being removed from their children’s birth certificates in Italy – here’s what’s behind this disturbing trend

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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The prosecutor, Valeria Sanzani, also seeks to remove the names of the mothers considered “non-genetic” from the birth certificates.

Key Points: 
  • The prosecutor, Valeria Sanzani, also seeks to remove the names of the mothers considered “non-genetic” from the birth certificates.
  • This includes another case in Milan, in which the birth certificate of a child born abroad via surrogacy to two men was annulled.

Going back a few months

    • In April, the Milan prefecture extended the logic of the circular to same-sex couples who conceived abroad via insemination by a donor.
    • Also in April, the birth certificate of one child born to two mothers was annulled in the city of Bergamo.
    • The prosecutor has challenged the legitimacy of many more birth certificates, and going as far back as 2017 (the year after civil unions for same-sex couples were legalised in Italy).
    • The children, some as old as six, would have their names and parental status forcibly changed by an act of the state.

Moves from the Meloni government

    • While campaigning, Meloni made clear the stance that her government could be expected to have regarding LGBTQ+ rights.
    • In a 2022 rally in Spain, Meloni exclaimed: “Yes to the natural family!
    • No to the LGBT lobby!” The January circular marked the beginnings of the Meloni government’s actions to make good on such positions.

Problems with citizenship

    • Should Sanzari’s challenge be successful in court, the question will become: what to make of the children whose Italian citizenship derives from the non-genetic/gestational parent?
    • With the removal of non-genetic same-sex partners on birth certificates, there is a potential loss of citizenship for the children.

‘Protecting the children’

    • From drag queen story hour to gay marriage, many elements of LGBTQ+ inclusion have been framed as a threat to children.
    • Meloni’s government ran on a platform of protecting the family, attempting to connect conservative policies on LGBTQ+ inclusion and migration through the frame of defending a homeland and family.
    • One of her campaign slogans was “God, homeland, family.” An unfortunate irony, then, that this policy is proving so destructive to families.

Spanish elections: why devastating local losses to the right have forced socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez to call an early national vote

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The local and regional elections that took place the 28th May have shaken up the political chessboard in Spain.

Key Points: 
  • The local and regional elections that took place the 28th May have shaken up the political chessboard in Spain.
  • The right-wing Partido Popular took the largest proportion of votes and now has the largest number of seats in local and regional governments.
  • In one fell swoop the socialist party has lost around 70% of the local and regional power it had.

National identity

    • Ideas about identity and nationalism came to play an important part in what were supposed to be elections about local matters.
    • During the last week of the campaign in particular, national issues dominated the discourse.
    • The Partido Popular has constructed a rhetoric of being the only party defending the constitution and the union of the country.
    • The party, presided over by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, has absorbed the main voters from Ciudadanos, the Catalan political start-up that was at first phenomenally successful when it came to national prominence in 2015 but has already almost disappeared.

Political leadership

    • He has managed to boost his international image with good performances in Europe and occasional visits to Washington and Beijing.
    • But there is little time for Sumar to establish a strategy that can turn a social movement into a political entity with representation in the provinces.
    • Meanwhile, Alberto Núñez Feijoo, of the Spanish People’s Party, proposes a quiet style of leadership.

Plebiscite

    • He lost three MPs in the 2019 rerun election and now he has lost ground in many regions.
    • In Catalonia, his acceptance is growing, but the seats it brings to the general elections are not enough.
    • In this situation, Sánchez’s only chance is to get as near to his current 120 parliamentary seats as he can.
    • Whereas local elections weren’t supposed to be a plebiscite on national government, next 23rd of July seems to be the rerun of a general election whose first round took place last weekend.