Be the first to comment!Human rights are common rights, says LGBTI+ Gozo
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LGBTI+ Gozo, in a statement today has said that it celebrates that Malta as a nation is going through a progressive surge.
“This should go together with education and knowledge to create an open community made up of acceptance and tolerance,” it said.
The Group went on to say that “a narrow mind-set or a misinformed one is due to lack of knowledge; and therefore challenging ideas and views are the way forward towards a facilitation of discussion of a progressive society.”
“Our country and our people, in a day and age where human rights are on the rise, ought to be more aware that once human rights are seen as fundamental rights and that whilst different cultures and values distinctively define us all, we are to support each other flourish amidst our differences” the Group remarked.
“The equal marriage bill being introduced will include all people with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations to have the same right and be treated on the same level as the heterosexual or cisgender counterpart ensuring that one sector of society does not have more privilege than another. This is also done through inclusive language,” stated LGBTI+ Gozo.
The Group continued by saying that “we live in an era where we do not have simply one identity but an array of various ones. We are not only man and women, gay or straight, cisgender or transgender but also Maltese or Gozitan, religious or atheist, from the north or from the south.”
“Ensuring equality and giving people the rights that they deserve is also acknowledging their identity.” It added. “Because we also have people that are neither a man or a woman, nor gay or straight; we have people that are from the central part and people that are neither atheists nor religious but spiritual.”
“We have an intersectionality of identities,” said LGBTI+Gozo. “This therefore needs to be incorporated in our education reform, to present a more diverse and equal community to our children.”
LGBTI+Gozo concluded by saying, “let us be the example for our children that we can live in a society where we can understand each other and have meaningful dialogue to protect and support the rights for all. Let us show our children that we should not tolerate each other but respect one another”
