Topic: LGBT Rights
Country: Poland
Delegate Name: Rebecca Dooley
School: Forest Hills Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Poland position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
The conversation revolving around the group of individuals who associate themselves with the LGBT brand is a tense and often taboo one. Until recently, this group of people had no room within Polish communities due to particularly harsh regimes of the past. As we have since broken free of the chains that previously bound us, we once again find the capacity to recognize the existence of certain minorities and are able to handle them according to what is in their best interest. The Republic of Poland has taken great steps toward protecting sexual minorities and individuals suffering from mental illnesses such as gender dysphoria. There are laws in place that ban employment discrimination and the denial of goods and services due to sexual orientation. These minorities are granted a safe space within society and yet they insist on demanding more and more. The Republic of Poland is of the belief that the members of the LGBT community have been, in all truthfulness, quite brashly displaying the peculiarities of their personal lives to members of the general population. Such subversions to Polish establishments need to be addressed in order to preserve the well-being of all of our people. Over half of our nation agrees with former Deputy Prime Minister Giertych that, "Homosexual propaganda needs to be limited, so children will not have an improper perspective on the family." The LGBT community should most certainly be satisfied with the adequate protections they have been allotted under Polish law; we will not endorse any resolution that champions homosexuality, as this would a direct affront on the very character of Polish people and institutions. The Republic of Poland will not be inclined to look favorably upon papers that encourage the public activity of homosexuals or any other self-identified proponents of the LGBT movement.
Work Cited “From 'Imagined' Homogeneity to Sexual Solidarity: The Struggle Over LGBT Rights in Poland.” Humanity In Action, www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/215-from-imagined-homogeneity-to-sexual-solidarity-the-struggle-over-lgbt-rights-in-poland.
