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Per leggere questo articolo in Italiano.
MAP Union, or Mu, is an organization that advocates for MAP visibility, equality, cautious legal reform, and youth rights. If you're curious about the 'MAP' term, perhaps considering it a euphemism, please read here.
Recently, we have been the subject of a smear campaign by the far-right anti-trans hate group Gays Against Groomers, which has in turn led to our organization being defamed by firebrand Sicilian politician Francesca Donato.
To read this article in English.
MAP Union, or Mu, è un'organizzazione che avvoca per l'egualianza, diritti dei giovani, la visibilita dei PAM, e riforme legali con cautela. Per quelli che son curiosi del termine 'PAM' (Traduzione di MAP, Minor Attracted Person, trad. Persone Attratte ai Minorenni), magari considerandolo come un eufemismo, vi preghiamo di leggere questo.
Recentemente, noi siamo stati soggetti di una campagnia diffamatoria da un gruppo statunitense transfobico dell'estrema destra Gays Against Groomers, il quale in turno la nostra organizzazione viene diffamata dalla politica siciliana Francesca Donato.
CLAIM: MOST OR ALL ONLINE ACTIVITY DOCUMENTING "MAPs" OR "MINOR-ATTRACTED PEOPLE" IS A HOAX PERPETUATED BY 4CHAN, THE MAGA MOVEMENT OR RUSSIA.
FACT CHECK: FALSE ❌
There has been a lot of drama on social media regarding right-wing trolls pretending to be MAPs, apparently to discredit Bluesky, annoy LGBT people, or 'own the libs'. It is clear that some of the widely-quoted accounts mentioning MAPs on Bluesky are right-wing trolls. However, there are also many more real MAPs using the service to promote the MAP rights cause.
Mu joined Bluesky earlier in the week to connect with MAPs on social media, promote MAP und...
Collaborated on by MAP Rights Forum and Katie Cruz last year, this recent framework for MAP Rights states:
- Build the MAP community, including reaching MAPs who are unaware of the community.
- Achieve protected class status.
- Access to compassionate, empathetic mental healthcare.
- Access to legal services.
- Remove “pedophilic disorder” from the DSM and ICD.
- Social justice – differentiating between rape/assault/coercion/violent crimes and statutory crimes.
- Social justice for minor MAPs, and those close in age.
- Ban conversion therapy.
- Meet the physiological needs of MAPs facing...