Ultraconservative Marketing Ploy Attempts to Derail Gender Equality

In recent decades, gender equality movements have achieved monumental victories. From expanding access to safe and legal abortion to promoting LGBTQI rights and mainstreaming the notion of gender diversity, these hard-fought gains demonstrate the enduring power of collective action to secure human rights for all. At the same time, progress on key issues related to gender and sexuality has set off a global countermovement. Religious fundamentalists, far-right conservatives, and anti-abortion activists are mobilizing to roll back sexual and reproductive rights, united under the banner of opposing so-called “gender ideology.” First invented by the Vatican as early as 1984, the term “gender ideology” is both misleading and insidious. It is a catch-all phrase deployed in conservative circles to demonize feminist and queer theory,

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