Critics warn the change will make life more difficult for LGBT people.

Slovakia has changed its constitution, enshrining into law recognition of only two sexes – male and female.

  • randomnameEnglish
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    Russian woman fined for ‘LGBT propaganda’ over 5-year-old rainbow flag post on social media

    … The woman, who admitted her guilt, expressed remorse and requested leniency, told the court that she had created the page herself and had not opened it in the last five years. She was ultimately issued with a fine of 1,000 rubles (€10).

    Earlier this month, a man from the city of Krasnoyarsk, in western Siberia, was likewise fined 1,000 rubles for posting audio recordings on VK of rap group Tyazhyolaya Atletika, whose album Injection depicts a rainbow in homage to Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, according to human rights NGO OVD-Info.

    In May, a court fined an activist from the republic of Bashkortostan, in the Volga region, 2,000 rubles (€20) for an emoji which featured the same Pink Floyd album cover, independent news outlet Mediazona reported …

    It’s 2025, but some (most?) governments on the globe try to turn back time: Slovakia, Russia, Hungary, China, now the US, …

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      It works and it’s gonna keep working so long as people feel their lives are getting worse while some groups are getting special treatment. They’re obvious scape goats for the right. We need universalist economic policies that tangibly improve the majorities’ lives but neoliberalism has been delivering the opposite - means-testing and tinkering round the edges, all the while we’re more productive than ever. Have another welfare cut.

      E: I’m not at all saying different social groups don’t deserve special treatment due to historical mistreatment and such. I’m saying that a system that only targets those groups for improvement while most get poorer is ready for disruption by using said groups as scape goats to explain why the majority is poorer.