Post by Asairia on Feb 10, 2019 17:00:01 GMT
WORLD ASSEMBLY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
DEFENDING THE RIGHTS OF SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITIES
DELEGATE IS VOTING: FOR ✓
FINAL RESULTS:
8,777 (54.3%) FOR
7,400 (45.7%) AGAINST
Overview
Defending the Rights of Gender and Sexual Minorities seeks to further guarantee the equality of sexual and gender minorities.
Author's Justification
The author, Maowi of South Pacific, "Holds that the sexuality or gender of an individual does not make them inferior or superior to another individual of a differing sexuality or gender, and further reasons that individuals of all sexualities and genders should be granted the same civil and political rights." Because of this, Maowi's resolution shall do the following should it be enacted:
REQUIRES all member nations which allow civil marriages between individuals of a certain sexuality or gender to allow civil marriages between individuals of all sexualities and genders, subject to previously passed extant World Assembly resolutions.
ORDERS all member nations to provide the same civil marriage services for individuals of all sexualities and genders.
COMPELS all member nations to grant the same marriage rights to civilly married individuals of all sexualities and genders.
REQUIRES all member nations to apply legislation of the same scope and effect for the termination of civil marriages between individuals of all sexualities and genders.
MANDATES that every member nation must grant exactly the same rights, powers, permissions and services to individuals of all sexualities and genders, subject to exactly the same qualifying conditions. Such conditions may not include the sexuality or gender of the individual(s) concerned.
ORDERS all member nations to impose exactly the same sanctions or punishments on all organisations which deny any right, power, permission or service to an individual based on their sexuality or gender, as the sanctions or punishments imposed on organisations discriminating on the basis of other arbitrary, reductive criteria (such as, but not limited to, ethnicity, age and religion).
MANDATES that all member nations must allow each of their citizens to choose or change their own gender, and that member nations must officially recognise and accept the individual's chosen gender.
CLARIFIES that religious organizations and their internal discrimination do not fall under this resolution, and should be addressed by future legislation.
ORDERS all member nations to provide the same civil marriage services for individuals of all sexualities and genders.
COMPELS all member nations to grant the same marriage rights to civilly married individuals of all sexualities and genders.
REQUIRES all member nations to apply legislation of the same scope and effect for the termination of civil marriages between individuals of all sexualities and genders.
MANDATES that every member nation must grant exactly the same rights, powers, permissions and services to individuals of all sexualities and genders, subject to exactly the same qualifying conditions. Such conditions may not include the sexuality or gender of the individual(s) concerned.
ORDERS all member nations to impose exactly the same sanctions or punishments on all organisations which deny any right, power, permission or service to an individual based on their sexuality or gender, as the sanctions or punishments imposed on organisations discriminating on the basis of other arbitrary, reductive criteria (such as, but not limited to, ethnicity, age and religion).
MANDATES that all member nations must allow each of their citizens to choose or change their own gender, and that member nations must officially recognise and accept the individual's chosen gender.
CLARIFIES that religious organizations and their internal discrimination do not fall under this resolution, and should be addressed by future legislation.
My Decision
Overall, there is nothing majorly wrong with this resolution that makes it worthy of my opposition. Sure, it still leaves some room for religious objection, but including it in this resolution would have likely caused it to fail, or at the very least, made it an extremely close vote; however, the General Assembly still has room to address that with appropriate legislation thanks to this resolution permitting it. Another grumble I've heard about this resolution is that it is redundant due to Article 1, Clauses C and D of GAR#35 (Charter of Civil Rights). I dismiss this as a valid reason to oppose this legislation not only because it expands on those two clauses, but because the General Secretaries deemed it different enough to be legal.
I have cast my vote in favor of this resolution, and I encourage you to do the same.
Current Regional support at time of publication.
Current Delegate support at time of publication.