Last updated: February 2024
Global Philanthropy Project shares here a collection of resources on the progressive philanthropic response to “anti-gender ideology” and/or “anti-gender” movements and related anti-rights agendas. Please share additional resources with us at info@globalphilanthropyproject.org.
What is “anti-gender ideology”?
Key Background Resources
- Laws on Us: A Global Overview of Legal Progress and Backtracking on
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics (ILGA World, 2024) - Hostile landscapes: How do gender restrictive actors contribute to violence against LGBTQI+ people? (ALIGN, 2024)
- Decoding LGBTQ Scapegoating & Communications Guidance (Over Zero, 2024)
- Protego: Operationalizing the Geneva Consensus Declaration (IPAS, 2024)
- The Global Resistance to LGBTIQ Rights (Journal of Democracy, 2024)
- Democratic Backsliding and LGBTI Acceptance (William’s Institute, 2023)
- The Authoritarian Playbook (Protect Democracy, 2022)
- Who is afraid of gender? Study on “gender ideology” and anti-gender campaigns that support it in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Senegal Sankofa d’Afrique de l’Ouest (iSDAO) and Queer African Youth Network (QAYN, 2022)
- Disrupting the multilateral order. The impact of anti-gender actors on multilateral structures in Europe. Center for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP, 2022)
- Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America in the pandemic context (Sexuality Policy Watch/SPW, 2022)
- “Gender Ideology Narratives: A Threat to Human Rights” (AWID, 2022)
- Power over rights. Understanding and countering the transnational anti-gender movement Vol.1 and Power over rights. Understanding and countering the transnational anti-gender movement Vol.2 Study by the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, supported by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland. (2021)
- Nothing is as it seems: ‘discourse capture’ and backlash politics (Lewin, 2021)
- Reports on Gender: The Law of Inclusion & Practices of Exclusion (summaries) (UN SOGI, 2021)
- From America With Hate: The Alliance Defending Freedom’s Role in Advancing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-Woman Agendas in Eastern Europe (Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, 2021)
- Why is the idea of ‘gender’ provoking backlash the world over? (Judith Butler | The Guardian, 2021)
- Tip of the Iceberg (European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights, 2021)
- Rights at Risk: The Observatory on the Universality of Rights (OURs) Trends Report (AWID, 2021)
- Manufacturing Moral Panic – Weaponizing Children to Undermine Gender Justice and Human Rights (GPP & Elevate Children Funders Group, 2021)
- Anti-Gender Politics in Latin America: 9 country case studies (Sexual Policy Watch, 2021)
- Revealed: $280m ‘dark money’ spent by US Christian right groups globally (openDemocracy, 2020)
- Modern-day Crusaders in Europe (European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights, 2020)
- Gender Ideology Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (PRA, 2020)
- “Restoring the Natural Order”: The religious extremists’ vision to mobilize European societies against human rights on sexuality and reproduction (European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights, 2018)
- The Globalisation of Anti-Gender Campaigns: Transnational Anti-Gender Movements in Europe and Latin America Create Unlikely Alliances (IPS Journal, 2018)
- Right-Wing Europe’s War on “Gender Ideology” (PRA, 2018)
- Disentangling and Locating the “Global Right”: Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe (Politics and Governance, 2018)
- ‘Gender Ideology’: big, bogus and coming to a fear campaign near you (Gillian Kane | The Guardian, 2018)
- Gender Ideology: Tracking its Origins and Meanings in Current Gender Politics (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2017)
- ‘Gender Ideology’: Weak Concepts, Powerful Politics (Religion and Gender, 2017)
- Gender Ideology is a Fiction that Could do Real Harm (Open Society Foundations, 2017)
- A Conspiracy Theory about Sex and Gender is being Peddled Around the World by the Far Right (Quartz, 2016)
- “Gender ideology”: a spoiler for peace? (OpenDemocracy, 2016)
- [Book] Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe Mobilizing against Equality. ed. Kuhar, R., Paternotte, D. 2017, Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., UK.
- [Video] #AntiGenderPolitics in Latin America video series – Spanish language with English subtitles (Sexuality Policy Watch, 2020)
- [Video] Gender Ideology: Tracking its Origins and Meanings in Current Gender Politics (Sonia Correa for CREA, 2019) [16:07 minutes]