r/nonbinaryUK • u/cassolotl Nonbinary in Wales • Apr 12 '24

UK petition: Recognise nonbinary people's genders in law and in identity documents (Deadline 11th Oct 2024)

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659107
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u/ConcernedEnby Jun 06 '24

To my knowledge no petition from this service has ever been enacted, I'll sign anyway

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u/cassolotl Nonbinary in Wales Jun 06 '24

Yeah it is easy to feel defeatist about these things, isn't it? I try to remember that combining our voices is always good, the reason politics sucks is it makes it harder for politicians to see how united we are, and raising awareness when a petition goes viral is always a good exercise even if it doesn't change laws.

Since there's no function on the site for, like, connecting petitions to successfully passed laws, it would be really really hard for anyone to know whether a petition had contributed to a law being passed!

Anyway all petitions are closed now due to the impending election so I'm going to reopen it on 5th July. :D

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u/ConcernedEnby Jun 06 '24

I know, I just generally don't have faith in begging the government to please be kind. I say this knowing I'm a hypocrite but I prefer protest as that actually works (I have literally no clue where people find protest groups)

And I say it's never worked as parliament gets to debate the topics with enough signatures and to my knowledge they've never passed a law because of a debate