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This week, Hadja Lahbib, a European Commissioner, announced the bloc’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy. She declared that it would be a “new phase in our efforts to promote equality for LGBTIQ+”, aimed “at protecting LGBTIQ+ people from harmful practices and hate-motivated offences, empowering LGBTIQ+ communities”.
Buried within the bureaucratic language is one of the most radical proposals in modern policymaking — and millions of Europeans will soon live under its shadow. Promising to “facilitate exchanges of best practices”, the Commission urges every EU country to develop legal gender recognition procedures based on self-determination which are “free from age restrictions”.
In plain English, Brussels is encouraging member states to let children change their legal sex — with no minimum age at all. At present, there is no medical or political consensus on how to treat minors who experience discomfort with their bodies. A widening gulf has emerged between lobby groups demanding “gender self-determination” from any age and clinicians and parents’ groups urging caution.
The drive to normalise the idea of the “trans child” comes despite medical authorities across Europe sounding alarms.
The strategy also declares that “LGBTIQ+ youth often face multiple forms of discrimination, experience prejudice, hate crimes and are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse.” But the real dangers to children — from ideologues and predators alike — have been amplified, not reduced, by Brussels. Teenagers are frequently sucked into digital echo chambers where the ordinary discomforts of adolescence are rebranded as something braver and trendier: being “trans”. Instead of engaging with the grassroots parents’ and safeguarding groups trying to protect children from the notion that their bodies need “fixing”, the Commission has chosen to double down, pledging even more funding to found a new LGBTIQ+ Policy Forum.
Source: EU doubles down on gender ideology with self-ID plan – UnHerd