's gay opposition leader blasts bureaucratic crackdown on rights of LGBTQ ... trends now

's gay opposition leader blasts bureaucratic crackdown on rights of LGBTQ ... trends now
Italy's gay opposition leader blasts bureaucratic crackdown on rights of LGBTQ ... trends now

Italy's gay opposition leader blasts bureaucratic crackdown on rights of LGBTQ ... trends now

The head of Italy's opposition party blasted a bureaucratic crackdown on LGBTQ families as 'ideological', 'cruel' and 'discriminatory'.

The Interior Ministry this week forced Milan to limit parental rights to the biological parent of children registered by same-sex couples in the city.

Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein, who in 2020 revealed she was in a relationship with another woman, vowed on Saturday to push through legislation to better recognize and protect their rights. 

She joined thousands of people at a demonstration in Milan to protest a move by the far-right-led Italian government to restrict the rights of parents in same-sex relationships.

'You explain to my son that I'm not his mother,' read one sign held up amid a sea of rainbow flags that filled one of the northern city's central squares.

Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein, who in 2020 revealed she was in a relationship with another woman, vowed on Saturday to push through legislation to better recognize and protect their rights

Democratic Party leader Elly Schlein, who in 2020 revealed she was in a relationship with another woman, vowed on Saturday to push through legislation to better recognize and protect their rights

LGBTQ protesters hold a rally against the government's crackdown against same-sex parents in Piazza Scala in Milan

LGBTQ protesters hold a rally against the government's crackdown against same-sex parents in Piazza Scala in Milan

Italy legalised same-sex civil unions in 2016, but opposition from the Catholic Church meant it stopped short of granting gay couples the right to adopt.

Decisions have instead been made on a case-by-case basis by the courts, as parents take legal action, although some local authorities decided to act unilaterally.

Milan had been registering children of same-sex couples conceived overseas through surrogacy - which is illegal in Italy - or medically assisted reproduction, which is only available for heterosexual couples.

But its centre-left mayor Beppe Sala revealed this week that this had stopped after the interior ministry sent a letter insisting that the courts must decide.

'It is an obvious step backwards from a political and social point of view, and I put myself in the shoes of those parents who thought they could count on this possibility in Milan,' he said in a podcast, vowing to fight the change.

Fabrizio Marrazzo of the Gay Party said about 20 children are waiting to be registered in Milan, condemning the change as 'unjust and

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