9 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 1 (2023)
The Italian Far Right’s Attack on Queer Children
by Matteo M. Winkler With ‘queer’ acting as an umbrella term for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI) people, this article argues that the Italian far right’s attempt to remove same-sex parents from their children’s birth certificates reflects an ideology under which queer individuals are excluded from the notion of ‘family’ and queerness is depicted as an abnormality in a child’s upbringing. By deconstructing these narratives through a human rights lens, this article aims to help queer activists, lawyers, scholars, and parents raise solid arguments in court, to recover, on behalf of all queer children, the dignity that the government is trying to take from them. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156
