llegitimate because they are contrary to the laws and the pronouncements of the Supreme Court. With these grounds, the Padua Public Prosecutor's Office has challenged all 33 birth acts of children of same-sex couples registered by Mayor Sergio Giordani from 2017 to the present. The act effectively removes parent 2 from the family status and goes in the same direction as Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi's directive in mid-March, but goes backwards in time. "I am serene and convinced of the choices made," the first citizen retorts, "I have been transcribing the birth records of girls and boys who are the children of two mothers since 2017. It is an act of responsibility toward these little ones because I do not accept the thought that there are children discriminated against from the very beginning, and as soon as they are born, in their fundamental rights".