A set of LGBT rights bills bearing the name of the 16-year-old girl slain in the Jerusalem gay pride parade attack has been introduced in the Knesset, Israel's parliament, The Jerusalem Post reports:
The “Shira Banki bills” include establishing civil unions, requiring education for equality and tolerance, prohibiting conversion therapy – to convince gay people to be or act straight – regulating surrogacy and supervising hate criminals after they're released from prison.
MK Tzipi Livni, who introduced the package, said the bills are “meant to be a deterrent and make it clear to anyone planning a hate crime and thinks that violence and racism are the way that their actions will be met with the advancement of equality and tolerance in Israeli society.”
Livni's colleague in the Knesset, Itzik Shmuli, came out as gay following the stabbing attack, saying “It is no longer possible to remain silent.”
