Italian Senate refuses to recognize gay children

The Italian Senate rejected last Tuesday (15) a European Union (EU) regulation recognizing the rights of children of same-sex couples and a proposal to adopt a European paternity certificate.

A motion to reject the document presented by Senator Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party was approved by the Senate European Policy Committee by 11 in favor and 7 against. The committee is Italian.

According to the resolution, “some of the provisions contained”, such as the recognition of the European certification, “do not respect the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality”, and therefore, if approved, “is an invasion of European law. National law”.

Senators said the move could be problematic in the case of surrogacy, which is legal in some of the bloc’s countries but banned on Italian territory.

However, the opposition voted in favor of the EU motion. According to them, rejection is a hindrance to the rights of minors, especially children of same-sex couples.

At the same time, the city of Milan, Italy, disrupted the registration of children born abroad to same-sex parents and assisted reproduction. Therefore, registration is allowed only when a “conventional adoption” is carried out.

Today (15), Elli Schlein, secretary of Italy’s largest center-left party, the Democratic Party (PD), and the main opposition force in the Meloni government, announced that she will join the demonstration by rights groups from the LGBTQIA+ community. Next Saturday (18) of the civil society in Milan and

The aim of the law is to ask that the recognition of children of same-sex couples continue even after the city in the country’s north stops registrations.

In addition, following a vote in the anti-Senate, it rejected the adoption of a proposed European regulation and European certificate recognizing the rights of children of same-sex couples, mainly due to Italy’s ban on surrogacy.

“At Saturday’s rally in Milan against this serious attack on the rights of boys and girls, especially gay families,” said Schlein, who was elected the PD’s first female leader two weeks ago. .