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MTV: Finland withdraws from Ukraine equality alliance due to Finns Party minister's anti-LGBT stance (yle.fi)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

... It does?

It is backed by the Ukrainian and German governments in particular, with the Ukrainian branch of UN Women playing a key role. Participants in the alliance include the foreign ministries or development agencies of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, the United Kingdom and the United States, as well as the EU.

Finnish media outlets have previously reported that issues related to sexual and gender minorities do not progress under Tavio's watch, and that he does not allow any mention of sexual or gender minorities in his speeches.

Sounds like the usual regressive far right bullshit to me, only with an obviously even more transparent excuse than usual

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean I'm not doubting the minister is a bit of a homophobe but I don't think it's wrong to focus aid on the disabled.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's more about, in this case, how he's openly sexist since that's what this alliance seems to be against. But either way that's a classic false binary. There's no reason they cant provide aid for both groups at the same time, it doesn't take away from either group to do that. This wasn't even much additional funding, it was a policy oversight thing who's stated goal decidedly wasn't "care more about women than disabled people".