Hello all,
here is an additional point for the European election program from the WG Queer Politics
**Motion Election Program PPEU
Right to bodily autonomy
The European Pirate Party considers bodily autonomy to be an important human right, and as such we demand that safe and legal abortion be available to all, no matter the reason for their choice. We also demand free access to contraceptives, including voluntary sterilization.
**In addition, we demand an informed consent model for gender affirming care, that it is made affordable and also accessible. Neither legal gender recognition nor medical or surgical sex reassignment should be made conditional on abusive requirements such as psychiatric diagnosis, normative gender expression, or medical procedures. We also demand the criminalization of non-medically necessary corrective procedures on intersex people without their consent. We will work towards creating a safe and inclusive environment where everyone can freely express their gender identity and sexual orientation, without fear of discrimination or violence.
Justification:
There are still countries like Poland that require hormone treatment for a legal gender change, in Czechia surgery and sterilisation seems to be required, or make it impossible like Hungary. https://tgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/tgeu-trans-health-map-2022-en.pdf in a good world every blue check in this image should be fullfilled by European countries. Currently most rights flow from case law and not from resolution so it should be something the parliament votes on to make the rights of trans people stronger. For abortion Poland is making it defacto illegal wiht all the requirements so it should also be something we Pirates are against.
Abortion and access to contraceptives is also not safe for people in all European Countries as Poland has defacto banned abortion. Voluntary sterilisation is also a big problem for people that decided that they don’t want to have kids, as society often disbelieves them in their wish. We as a human rights party should stand for bodily autonomy for all people, as we know that a person themselfs knows their wishes the best, not doctors or the government.