while same sex civil unions were granted in 2016, last autumn italy voted for a party whose leader has in the past questioned the lgbt community s right to parent. translation: this is their game. they want us to be parent one, parent two, lgbt gender, citizen x, codes. but we are not codes. we are people and we will defend our identity. injanuary prime minister georgia meloni s government ordered all mayors to stop automatically registering the birth of children born to same sex families. following the intervention by officials in rome, same sex parents living in several northern cities have recently received letters like irene. depending on how the public responds, lawyers predict this practice will become more widespread. but the leader of the noi con l italia party,