Lgbtq+ vs God

Breaking the Buzzword: Debunking the Myth of "Gender Ideology"
We are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this month. To commemorate the event, we asked Human Rights Watch experts to reflect on some of the most pressing human rights issues in their fields. Gender ideology, like its buzzword brother "fake news," has quickly infiltrated nationalist lexicons. The Holy See coined the vapid but dangerous word decades ago to describe a supposedly lesbian and feminist-led movement aimed at subverting traditional families and social values, as a reaction to women's rights and rising safeguards for sexual and gender minorities.

Since then, it's become a catch-all phrase and shorthand for many worries about societal change—a Hydra-like worldwide conspiracy myth with enormous support despite being moderately ludicrous and easily revealed.
In recent years, “gender ideology” has been used as a secular rallying cry against same-sex marriage in France, an alliance-building initiative between nationalists and religious conservatives in Poland, a boost to anti-Muslim groups in Austria, a popularity boost for Costa Rican presidential candidate Fabricio Alvarado, and a mobilizing tool against Colombia's recent peace accord. That's a lot. How is it possible for a single concept to serve so many purposes? Anti-gender activists in France attempted to frame the marriage equality debate around the protection of children within traditional families from foreign ideology; in Poland, nationalists and conservatives rallied around an idea portrayed as dangerously cosmopolitan and contrary to church teachings; and in Austria, anti-immigrant groups suggested a link between gender progressives and immigrants. In Costa Rica, an outlier in the 2018 presidential election fared remarkably well by conjuring up a threat to the gender order; and in Colombia, residents opposed to the peace agreements argued that the agreement was the thin edge of a deadly "gender ideology"
wedge.

The anti-gender movement has succeeded in uniting various groups over a thin but potent moral panic about gender and sexuality. The feminist movement and LGBT activists fighting back should take a page from their opponents' playbook—sexuality and gender issues are inextricably linked—and unite around fundamental rights to dignity, bodily autonomy, access
to information, the right to a life free of violence and discrimination, and freedom of association and expression.