Brief “Gender Ideology” Narratives: A Threat To Human Rights
“Gender ideology” narratives are increasingly present in public discourse and policy-making spaces, posing a significant threat to human rights. The malleable concept of “gender ideology” casts advocates of gender and social justice as illegitimate proponents of a nefarious agenda.
For decades, feminist scholars and advocates have articulated important concepts related to gender to understand and challenge oppression and discrimination. Those concepts have now become the target of anti-rights actors who claim that oppressive patriarchal gender roles are “common sense”, strategically painting all other ideas, cultural norms, and forms of social life as a dangerous, conspirative ideology.
This brief provides a great summary of the key issues as well as 3 case studies that how these concepts are weaponised
- Legitimizing violence against women: the withdrawal of Turkey from the Istanbul Convention
- Banning of gender and comprehensive sexuality education in Paraguay
- Anti-trans mobilization against reform of the Gender Recognition Act in the United Kingdom