The Council of Europe condemns “gender critcal” transphobes in new resolution

Resolution 2417 (2022) of The Council of Europe states that:

The Assembly condemns the highly prejudicial anti-gender, gender-critical and anti-trans narratives which reduce the fight for the equality of LGBTI people to what these movements deliberately mis-characterise as “gender ideology” or “LGBTI ideology”.

Such narratives deny the very existence of LGBTI people, dehumanise them, and often falsely portray their rights as being in conflict with women’s and children’s rights, or societal and family values in general.

All of these are deeply damaging to LGBTI people, while also harming women’s and children’s rights and social cohesion.

The Assembly deplores the fact that such discourse is leading to stagnation and even backsliding in progress towards LGBTI equality, sexual and reproductive rights and women’s and children’s rights — and in so doing, it poses a direct challenge to democracy and the rule of law. In many countries, legislative processes aimed at improving the protection of the rights of LGBTI people have stalled, and in some, progress previously achieved has been undone.

The significant advances achieved in recent years are today under threat. It is crucial to react quickly in order to prevent further backsliding and work actively to promote full respect for the rights of LGBTI people.

Steph Paton points out that it specifically condemns the United Kingdom over “virulent attacks on the rights of LGBTI people that have been occurring for several years”.

The Council of Europe is Europe’s leading human rights organization. It has 47 member states.

Originally published at https://trans-express.lgbt.