It is false that gender is an ideology
This narrative has been spread by different churches and anti-rights groups to oppose comprehensive sex education and the gender perspective.
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For Children's Day, the Argentine government released a commercial claiming that its administration protects children from "gender ideology." Besides being provocative to claim to safeguard children's rights (according to UNICEF, over 1 million children in Argentina go to bed hungry), the commercial spreads misinformation because gender ideology doesn't exist. Below, we explain why.
“Gender ideology” is a term used to spread misinformation.
According to the Glossary for Equality of the National Institute for Women (Inmujeres) , gender ideology is a term that is used in a negative and derogatory way to cancel or dismiss the sexual and gender diversity to which societies, cultures and nations have been opening up.
The term "ideology" refers to the dogmatic nature assumed regarding the ideas of equality, empowerment, and respect for the personal experience of identity and sexuality. Feminist and diversity movements are rejected, arguing that they go against nature and the family and that they operate by endangering the established social order.
Disinformation that has been circulating since at least '95
The term “gender ideology” emerged in 1995 as a discursive strategy of the Vatican during the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
The Pontifical Council for the Family stated that “gender ideology is part of the “feminist ideologies” that derive from the “loss of faith in the world.”
It was in 2016 that Pope Francis popularized the concept by declaring that gender ideology is an “ideological colonization” that “goes against natural things.”
That same year, following a presidential initiative to recognize same-sex marriage in the Constitution (which was rejected), the National Front for the Family . The purpose of this organization: “the elimination of gender ideology in schools.”
This narrative has been spread by various churches and anti-rights groups to oppose comprehensive sexual education and the gender perspective .
This article was made possible through a partnership between Agencia Presentes and Verificado México.
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