Italy's LGBTQ+ community decries government's attacks on same-sex parental rights
euronews.comItaly's LGTBQ+ community is accusing Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government of trampling on same-sex couples' parental rights despite the country's already having some of the weakest in Europe.For activists, the latest example of this came this week when the Senate voted against a European Commission regulation for cross-border recognition of same-sex parents.
Italy thus joined the Visegrad group — composed of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia — in refusing to transpose the regulation.The news has outraged the country's LGTBQ+ community, which has repeatedly called out Meloni’s government for discrimination, pointing to a strategy of anti-gay propaganda and tightening of norms against same-sex parenting.Brothers of Italy, the ruling party with neo-fascist roots, led the vote against the European regulation, citing concerns that recognition of same-sex parents could undermine the current ban on surrogate pregnancy.Italian law currently considers surrogacy an offence to the dignity of women.“The veto is bogus,” Vincenzo Miri, president of Rete Lenford, an association that provides legal help for queer people, told Euronews.
