Italian lawyer vows to fight gender-segregated electoral voting queues
by Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo from on (#642NA)
LGTBQ+ activists denounce discrimination at polling stations in Sunday's general election
A leading Italian lawyer has pledged to fight in court a decades-old Italian election law that in widespread implementations on Sunday led to thousands of voters, including trans people, being forced into gender-segregated queues.
Hundreds of LGTBQ+ activists denounced discrimination at polling stations in Sunday's general election. Many told of their experiences on social media, citing how the binary queues failed to consider the complexity of thousands of voters in Italy whose identity cards do not reflect their gender" and forced them to publicly identify themselves as trans people.
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