Gender ideology

The term "gender ideology" is a snarl word and straw man argument used by the anti-gender movement, that originated in "anti-feminist and anti-trans discourses among right-wing Christians, with the Catholic Church acting as a major nucleating agent."Amoris Laetitia § 56http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2015/06/09/male-and-female-differences-must-be-recognised-and-valued-says-pope-francis/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3hndmjeUhc It has since been "adopted by far-right organisations and politicians in numerous American, European and African states". From around 2016, the term is also increasingly being adopted by TERFs. Similar terms include "gender identity ideology"Sanchez, Raquel Rosario. If ‘white feminism’ is a thing, gender identity ideology epitomizes it. Feminist Current, July 26, 2017. and "radical gender ideology" where "radical" is simply used to make "gender" sound even more ominous, or "transgender ideology", in order to vilify transgender people (who are already widely discriminated against). This is somewhat similar to fearmongering about a supposed "gay agenda".
The expression refers especially to being transgender and gender identity/expression, but may also refer to anything LGBT-related more broadly. It is frequently used as a catch-all term for many sexuality-related topics and moral panics, including, but not limited to:
* Same-sex marriage (even civil unions)http://www.avvenire.it/Chiesa/Pagine/papa-francesco-a-vescovi-portorico-no-ideologia-gender.aspx
* Same-sex parenting.http://osservatoriogender.famigliadomani.it/libri-gender-consigliati/adozioni-a-coppie-gay/
* Forcing male children to wear lipstick at school.http://www.famigliacristiana.it/articolo/mio-figlio-costretto-ad-andare-a-scuola-con-rossetto-e-specchio.aspx
* Teaching children how to masturbate at school.http://www.leggo.it/NEWS/ITALIA/teoria_gender_elementari_suore_masturbazione/notizie/1362985.shtml
* Abortion, in-vitro fertilization, and surrogacy.http://history.arts.cornell.edu/Robcis_Catholics_JMH.pdf
Italy, where Catholicism thrives, has seen the rise of many Catholic-inspired anti-LGBT associations. Among these:
* Generazione Famiglia (which is the Italian version of La Manif Pour Tous),
* Provita,
* Sentinelle in Piedi (Standing sentinels),
* Giuristi per la Vita (Pro-life Jurists),
and many others. These associations often perpetuate moral panics about and misinformation on being transgender, same-sex marriage/civil unions, homosexual indoctrination, same-sex parenting and even surrogacy (which has not even been discussed in the parliament, but is used as a slippery slope argument against adoptions — even stepchild adoptions).
In the Italianhttps://www.wikisessualita.org/wiki/Ideologia_gender, Polishhttp://wyborcza.pl/1,75968,15075819,Co_to_jest__ideologia_gender___Nowe_narzedzie_walki.html, Germanhttp://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article142893078/Im-Suedwesten-kocht-die-Wut-auf-Gender-Ideologie.html and Slovakhttp://www.branislavskripek.sk/gender-ideologia-uz-aj-na-slovensku/ versions of the expression, "gender" is kept in its English form, since it sounds scarier and more mysterious than their native counterparts.
==Pope Francis' statements==
===Transgender people and nuclear weapons===
Pope Francis compared the arguments against nuclear weapons to those against gender identity and transgender people.
Beyond the inherent logical fallacies, this is a clear false analogy. Genetic modification and transgender people both do not "consider man […] an accident" or attempt to eliminate humans — instead, they both try to make humans better. Conversely, it is very hard to argue that nuclear weapons, and war in general, are aimed at anything but human destruction. (Excluding theories about nuclear deterrence and nuclear peace, both of which were both theorized long after the first nukes rolled off the assembly line.)
===The family - male and female===
===Amoris Laetitia===
Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love) is the apostolic exhortation that Pope Francis wrote after the two years of synod on the family.
==Political parties and politicians==
In March 2016, a political party called "Il Popolo della Famiglia" (The People of Family) was founded by Mario Adinolfi, one of the most well-known anti-LGBT activists in Italy. The party's motto is "No gender in schools".http://www.lacrocequotidiano.it/articolo/2016/03/03/politica/litalia-ha-bisogno-dei-cattolici
The Brazilian right loves this subject. In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro promised to send to the Congress a bill that "prohibits the gender ideology" in the schools.Após STF barrar lei municipal, Bolsonaro promete enviar projeto contra 'ideologia de gênero'
==Adoption by TERFs==
Since the late 2010s the term "gender ideology" is increasingly and now widely used by trans-exclusionary radical feminists. Pearce et al. notes:
==Alleged promoters==
According to Christina Hoff Sommers and fundamentalists, those who promote the gender ideology are:
* The population control group;
* sexuality libertarians;
* LGBT activists;
* politically correct multiculturalism promoters;
* environmental extremists;
* neo-Marxists and Social Justice Warriors;
* deconstructionists and postmodernists;Dale O'Leary, Maschi o femmine? La guerra del genere, Rubbettino, 2006, page 11
* the United Nations and other Jews "globalists";
* radical feminists;
* some sort of "social engineers";
* and, of course, the Satanic, baby-eating Illuminati
In other words, almost anybody who isn't a conservative religious fundamentalist.
==See also==
* Transphobia
* Transgender
* Pope Francis
* Homosexual agenda
==External links==
* See the Wikipedia article about the anti gender movement.
==References==
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