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Denmark became the world's first country to offer legal recognition of gay partnerships on 1 October 1989 – a day when "something shifted in human affairs"
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- 'It is a kind of marriage': When Denmark held the first ever same-sex civil unions
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- 1040 words
What a happy time. I am saddened that we're only 36 countries now, I thought in 2015 after the US, many other countries would quickly follow. But now in many ways queer and trans (and womens/afab) rights are slipping backwards.
As a trans masc person: just use women's or, if you specifically mean reproductive rights, say that. Using "women/afab" like this raises red flags in ways I assume you don't intend it.
Things are indeed worrying throughout the world for queer people. But it's still world's away from where we were even as recently as 1989. It's easy to focus on the bad news (and important not to ignore it, because we often need to take action to combat attempts to take away our rights) but there is progress happening. Thailand just legalized same-sex marriage, for instance. Sometimes we have to fight tooth and nail for things that other people take for granted, but we are not doomed. Nothing is inevitable.