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"In June, the Hungarian parliament voted overwhelmingly to eliminate from
public schools all teaching related to “homosexuality and gender change”,
associating LGBTQI rights and education with pedophilia and totalitarian
cultural politics. In late May, Danish MPs passed a resolution against
“excessive activism” in academic research environments, including gender
studies, race theory, postcolonial and immigration studies in their list of
culprits. In December 2020, the supreme court in Romania struck down a law that
would have forbidden the teaching of “gender identity theory” but the debate
there rages on. Trans-free spaces in Poland have been declared by transphobes
eager to purify Poland of corrosive cultural influences from the US and the UK.
Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul convention in March sent shudders through
the EU, since one of its main objections was the inclusion of protections for
women and children against violence, and this “problem” was linked to the
foreign word, “gender”.
The attacks on so-called “gender ideology” have grown in recent years
throughout the world, dominating public debate stoked by electronic networks
and backed by extensive rightwing Catholic and evangelical organizations.
Although not always in accord, these groups concur that the traditional family
is under attack, that children in the classroom are being indoctrinated to
become homosexuals, and that “gender” is a dangerous, if not diabolical,
ideology threatening to destroy families, local cultures, civilization, and
even “man” himself."
Via Kevin O'Brien, who wrote "A very good article."
Cheers,
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