Resisting the campaigns against “gender ideology”. Activisms across Europe

Apresentação

During the last years, discourses and campaigns against “gender ideology” – a concept adopted to articulate opposition to gender equality, abortion, sexual education, and LGBTQIA+ rights in areas such as marriage, adoption, surrogacy, and reproductive technologies – have gained public visibility within European countries’ politics and mediascapes, raising concerns about the efficacy of EU legislation in the protection of LGBTQIA+ people. The mobilisations against “gender ideology” have been concomitant with systematic attacks on LGBTQIA+ people’s rights, increasing their vulnerability to violence and leading to concrete obstacles related to changes in countries’ legislation and policies on the protection of LGBTQIA+ people. The Hungarian law banning queer content in educational settings and the media and its government’s attacks on sexual education promotes disinformation and increments the invisibility of queer lives. In Poland, several municipalities have officially declared themselves unwelcoming to an alleged “gender ideology” and free of queer people. Through the rejection of the so-called “gender ideology” in the European Union, those examples are amongst the most emblematic ongoing attempts to stigmatize sexual minorities and establish discrimination and social inequality.

The UE has since clarified its position on the matter, with a resolution declaring the European Union an “LGBTIQ freedom zone”; and has taken legal actions against Hungary and Poland, pointing to Article 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 19 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Queer people have also been developing a broad array of initiatives to resist anti-gender campaigns and policies within the EU, thought organizations, movements, and grassroots collectives.

In this roundtable, the Group of Research in Sexualities (CES-GPS) brought together actors in the area – European policymakers and grassroots activists – to debate the panorama of anti-gender discourses and policies in the European Union, and to shed light on ongoing resistance strategies and initiatives mobilised at various levels, from the European Union to grassroots collectives in Portugal, Poland, and Hungary.

Notas biográficas

Marc Angel (LGBTI Intergroup/initiative LGBTI Freedom Zones) 

Kamil Maczuga | LGBT activist from Cracow in Poland. Nominated for the Sakharov Prize as a co-founder of Atlas of Hate. Member of the Equal Signs Federation. Currently advocating for anti-SLAPP regulations.

Bea Sando (Hatter Society (HU)  

Daniela Filipe Bento (ILGA Portugal) | 35 anos, natural do Cartaxo, mas a viver em Lisboa. Ativista LGBTIQ+, direito e justiça social e saúde mental. Astrofísica de formação e Engenheira de Software de profissão, é parte da atual direção da Associação ILGA Portugal bem como, coordenadora do Grupo de Reflexão e Intervenção Trans (GRIT) da mesma associação. Faz parte da Trans Health Network e do Grupo de Trabalho para a implementação do ICD-11, duas iniciativas da Trangender Europe (TGEU).

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