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I think these petitions depend a lot upon people actually being aware of them. I don't think it's widespread in Denmark at all

Maybe it’s already banned in these countries and there could be an assumption that it is already banned in most countries too, which make it seem like a less important issue.

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Important to note; The French have a very strong culture of secularism, which turns out helps a lot with fighting against religious BS.

I’m torn between feeling proud my country did some good for once and annoyed that it means my signature is basically pretty useless compared to others.

I've visited a eastern country a few times. I've basically felt like home there as if I was in Portugal. We are the same.

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Croatia had some 70% just in final day, but Denmark stayed at some 80ish the entire time. I've only heard about this petition from lemmy, maybe a couple of posts there and here made it work in some cases but not in others

The initiative was coming from a French organization. That obviously makes it easier to contact French LGBTQ+ groups to promote that initiative. However it is often difficult to contact groups in other countries, as those contacts are missing. Hence some countries might not have signed as much as they could have.

Dane here. Haven't seen or heard about the petition.

I don't think conversion therapy is a thing in Denmark, so most people are probably like "eh, what's that old fashioned thing - we are already past that."

Could be wrong though.

Well it's both. Which tells you something about the French. Organized and intolerant to this kind of shit.

France accounts for some half of signatures, and also that's where this campaign is coordinated from

I live in France and only heard about it from social media: first, by sheer chance, a few months ago from a minor Mastodon account, the second time three days before the deadline, from the same Mastodon account again. I don’t browse Facebook/Instagram/Twitter/Tiktok at all, so I’m not sure how the coverage was there.

A trans friend who’s normally way better informed than me about this stuff told me he heard about it less than a week before the deadline, so clearly word hadn’t spread that well, even if France already did have more signatures than most countries at the time. From what I can tell, it spread through digital "word of mouth" rather than through established medias. There was some media coverage, but reeeaally at the last time. A few politicians (mostly from the left) talked about it during the last days, too.

Like someone else said, ECIs don’t get a lot of media coverage and most people don’t even know they exist. By the way, in France, there’s also an official petition system to submit law ideas to the parliament, and it’s also not very well known. (Another problem being that most petitions on the parliament website are ludicrous because, contrary to ECI, no vetting is done before publishing the petition (as far as I know). I take a look at it now and then, and it’s really tiring to search for the legitimate stuff in the midst of all the ridiculous crap.)

I don't believe ECIs ever get a lot of media coverage, sadly.

Most people don't even know they can start/participate in ECIs and have their opinion taken into account at a european level. Best we can do is share the platform and make sure as many people as possible know about it.

In Croatia it wasn't covered except for maybe some niche media and Grof Darkula. Still, I'm surprised we made it, homophobia is rampant here.

A lot of this is campaigning/spreading the word. Like France is fairly progressive but not 10 times as much as Sweden. Denmark and Austria are probably just late to the party. Not sure about Portugal though. They're Eastern European at heart.