Transnational anti-genderism: how the attacks on “gender-ideology” affect different(ly) regions...
Channel: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 12/10/2022

Title: "Transnational anti-genderism: how the attacks on “gender-ideology” affect different(ly) regions of the world"


Transnational anti-genderism was the third and last roundtable of the cycle of web events about the campaigns against “gender ideology”, which was organized by GPS-CES – Group of Research on Sexualities. The anathema “gender ideology” – in whose origins and dissemination the Catholic Church played a key role – can be defined as a conservative rhetorical strategy to attack LGBTQ rights, feminist agendas in areas such as reproductive rights, and the scholarship that deconstructs essentialist assumptions about gender and sexuality. There is a significant body of literature about the mobilizations against “gender ideology” in Europe and Latin America. Attacks on women’s and LGBTQI’ rights are though present in other parts of the world without being articulated necessarily around the concept of “gender ideology”. This panel gathered researchers and activists whose work engages with the realities of Pakistan, Turkey and Armenia to discuss the following issues: Are there parallels and convergences between mobilizations against women’s and LGBTQI rights in these countries and the European and Latin American campaigns against “gender ideology”? And most important: which are the glocal possibilities of solidarity and resistance against the increasing influence of “anti-gender” groups and politicians?