Less than three thousand couples per year: the real impact of the Cirinnà law on Italy. The numbers confirm the collapse in requests. But Elly Schlein defends LGBTQ people in Milan. Not caring about work, healthcare, energy…
It took thirty years to pass the law on civil unions. First the Pacs, then the Dicos, then DiDoRe, finally the Cirinnà law. Discussions, battles, processions through the streets of the main cities. In the end, on 20 May 2016 the new rules were promulgated by the President of the Republic and on 5 June of the same year. Was it worth it? Probably, for those who have thus managed to regulate their union before the law, yes. But was it worth such a great political commitment for such a minimal result?
Looking at the numbers, one would say not. He published them yesterday Only 24 hourslining up the results of ten years of law enforcement. When civil unions were introduced into Italian law in 2016, 4,376 couples asked to have their relationship certified before a public official. Many, but year after year there have been fewer and fewer asking. The latest available data concerns 2024 and there is talk of 2,936 couples. In total, from 2016 to two years ago, there were 24,000 civil unions. Whereas, according to data Istat And Ipsospeople who identify as gay or lesbian are approximately 2% of the Italian population, i.e. just under one million 200 thousand people, in ten years just 2% of those interested have benefited from the law.
The numbers of Il Sole 24 Ore deny the political narrative
Can’t you understand where I’m going with this bunch of numbers? I want to arrive at a simple consideration which is inspired not only by these figures, but also by yet another gay parade, the last one yesterday in the streets of the center of Milan where he also surprisingly participated Elly Schlein saying that “Italy on LGBTQIA+ rights is not in Europe”. Homosexuals and lesbians who make a big deal about rights are a small minority. The majority of gays or even female people who are in relationships with other women are not interested in floats that claim the pride of loving a person of the same sex. Those who protest and dress up to end up on TV or in newspapers do not represent the entire homosexual world, but enjoy extraordinary visibility thanks to some parties and certain newspapers who, in their ideological fury, do not even realize that they are giving a caricatural image of that world.
In short, gays are much more serious than those who think they represent them with gay pride. And gays and lesbians themselves are much less interested in the battles that a political party claims to be fighting for them. I’ll add more. If we analyze the data on civil unions, a “conquest” that the left claims as a sign of progress, we discover that not only a minority has decided to make use of it, but that minority is predominantly male. Does this mean that lesbian women prefer to avoid this type of formalization of their relationship? Probably yes. But in their name – and in the name of hundreds of thousands of gay people – the left has kept busy Parliament with a discussion that was simply not a priority for those involved.
The gap between ideological priorities and the growth of the country
Instead of talking about how to guarantee energy to the country, how to improve healthcare, what solutions to adopt to create more modern infrastructures, those who were in government in the years between 2011 and 2022 discussed something else, condemning Italy to a delay on issues vital to economic and social growth.
Some might say that the debate on civil unions belongs to the past and, therefore, there is no point in rehashing a past history. This is not the case and not only because on the left they try everything to introduce the crime of homophobia (recently, after the double crime in Viareggio, the comrades have also invented gaycide), but because they are worried about serving the interests of a minority of the minority, ignoring the rights of the majority. Now, for example, they are fighting to introduce assisted suicide, or the right to death administered by the State.
How many cases in Italy are there of people asking to end their lives in a hospital and with the help of a doctor? A few dozen. But in Parliament it seems that Italy is hit by an epidemic of requests to obtain a sweet death and, therefore, in the regional councils, in the House and Senate commissions, nothing else is talked about, ignoring the real world, which, instead of talking about how to obtain the end of life, prefers to discuss how to make ends meet.
