In Italy, Meloni’s government attacks gay parents

About 10,000 people gathered in the center of Milan on March 18 for a demonstration in La Scala square, pen in hand. Most of them, LGBT + or left-wing supporters, were thus going to protest in response to the decision of the government of Georgia Meloni: five days before, in fact, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala (Greens), explained that he had received a letter from the Ministry of the Interior to stop the registration of the birth of children of homosexual couples.

If the city councilor confirmed that he would comply with the prefectural order, he also specified that he would continue to fight for the recognition of the rights of same-sex parents and their children. Italian justice has not yet made a clear decision on the issue of adoption, to the extent that some courts in the country have ruled in favor of the adoption of the children of the other partner by one partner of a homosexual couple, which de facto allows birth registration. A surrogate mother for same-sex parents.

Fierce Gestation Resistance for GPA

The Milan protest seems to have opened a chapter of confrontation on the subject of civil rights in Italy, a “The New Ideological Struggle of the Right”, According to the former president of the Chamber, Roberto Fico. On March 14, a Senate committee rejected a proposal for an EU regulation aimed at recognizing the rights of children, including recognizing the rights of same-sex couples and obtaining a European certificate. “All children should have the same rights, regardless of how they were conceived or born and what type of family they are in.”Didier Reynders, European Commissioner for Justice, explained in December 2022.

If Giorgi Meloni emphasized his opposition during the pre-election campaign “Any Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Choice”He also specified in his political program his desire to fight adoption by homosexual couples and his strong opposition to surrogacy (GPA). The prime minister’s ultra-conservative government now wants to protect the recognition of civil unions passed in 2016 and not open the door to surrogate mothers.

“The coup is not surprising because certain political forces in the government do not want to listen to LGBT communities. explanation Alisa Redael, president of Arcigay Milano, one of the main LGBT+ associations on the peninsula and organizer of the March 18th action. “But the power’s response was violent, in a populist way of setting the stakes,” He mourns.