news @hexbear.net iridaniotter [she/her, it/its] @hexbear.net 6 mo. ago

Thai House of Representatives passes marriage equality bill

www.bangkokpost.com House passes landmark marriage equality bill

The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a marriage equality bill in its final reading, in a landmark step that moves the country closer to becoming the third in Asia to legalise same-sex unions.

96% of MPs voted for it! gayroller-2000

It will very likely be approved by the Senate and then needs to be approved by the king (lmao).

Although the amendment makes marriage gender-neutral, the two parents will still be legally referred to as "mother" and "father" regardless of gender.

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you can use chopsticks, but legally one stick is a fork and the other the spoon
Can't wait for the pregnant dads
- Asia truly is years ahead of us. In Thailand now cisgender women can be pregnant dads, and in Nepal they're even letting straight couples get gay married!
  
  If China passes something on the level of this or Cuba's just watch westoids lose their shit about the straight genocide
Thailand is honestly one of the coolest non socialist countries in the world
- I'm not disagreeing with you, but it is a monarchy with a long history of military governments. Thanks cold war Amerikan foreign policy.
what are the other two asian countries where same-sex unions are legal?
- You can get married in Taiwan and Nepal, although in Nepal the supreme court hasn't ruled on it yet so there's technically the possibility that it could get reversed.

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