On the initiative of the European Parliament’s LGBTI Intergroup, 64 MEPs sent a letter to Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Wednesday, 24 June, asking him to reject a bill prohibiting any discussion of gender identity in the country’s schools and educational establishments.
This bill, which was approved by the Romanian Senate in mid-June, opposes activities aimed at spreading the “theory” that “gender is a concept different from biological sex and that gender and sex are not always the same thing”.
The promulgation of this bill “would further endanger the lives of men, women and girls, transgender and gender-diverse persons, since denying the reality of gender is failing to acknowledge the social realities lived by different people on the basis of their gender”, stress the MEPs.
In addition, they point out that, according to the EU Fundamental Rights Agency, Romania is, along with Poland, the EU country that has recorded the highest rate of physical or sexual assaults of LGBTI persons in the last 5 years (15%).
To read the letter: https://bit.ly/3dyhEET (Original version in French by Agathe Cherki)