Why is the idea of 'gender' provoking backlash the world over? | Judith Butler

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : 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.
58% : In Germany and throughout eastern Europe "genderism" is likened to "communism" or to "totalitarianism".
46% : The vanishing of social services under neoliberalism has put pressure on the traditional family to provide care work, as many feminists have rightly argued.
46% : The third is Agenda Europe, consisting of more than 100 organizations, which casts gay marriage, trans rights, reproductive freedom, and LGBTQI anti-discrimination efforts as assaults on Christianity.
45% : Or, as the rightwing Italian group Pro Vita maintains, "gender" intensifies the social effects of capitalism whereas the traditional heteronormative family is the last bulwark against social disintegration and anomic individualism.
43% : It is easy enough to debunk and even ridicule many of the claims that are made against gender studies or gender identity, since they are based on thin caricatures, and often verge on the phantasmagoric.
43% : Such a phantasm of destructive power can only be subdued through desperate appeals to nationalism, anti-intellectualism, censorship, expulsion, and more strongly fortified borders.

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