EU gender nonsense
How it slips into your national laws through the back door & what you can do about it
Hello!
This is WORIADS’ very first newsletter 🎉 🎊!
Thank you for subscribing and an extra special thanks to everyone who signed our open letter to MEPs on the draft EU law combating violence against women (VAW). Twenty amazing organisations and over 100 EU citizens supported this campaign.
Our objective was to make our voices heard - and we did. None of the key MEPs can say that they did not know about the erosion of women’s sex-based rights and the youth safeguarding issues lurking in this draft EU law. A more in-depth briefing on this is coming soon!
This first edition of our newsletter focuses on how the EU’s gender obsession affects you as an EU citizen. The EU seems a bit far away, so you might not be paying close attention, but the gender nonsense is slipping into your national policies and legislation through the back door. Let’s see how that’s happening and what we can do about it.
EU Gender nonsense is coming in through the back door
A few days ago, an Irish man was rejoicing on Twitter about a large gathering of parents speaking out on Ireland’s new “Social Personal and Health Education Curriculum (SPHE)” for primary school kids. It seems that parents are concerned about the hyper-sexualisation of their kids at school among other things. “A rebellion is brewing” he tweeted.
What is sad is that while Irish parents fight at the national level to keep indoctrination out of education, centre-right Irish MEP Frances Fitzgerald is fighting in Europe to ensure it is enshrined in EU law. And she is doing so with the backing of MEPs from across Europe.
It’s important to understand that when a law is agreed at the European level, it is binding in all EU Member States. Once MEPs and national governments reach an agreement, national parliaments transpose the EU law into national law.
That means that in some cases, what you think is a national law may be something agreed upon in Brussels. So, make no mistake, the European Parliament’s Gender Follies are coming to a parliament near you.
Frances Fitzgerald and her Swedish colleague Evin Incir (centre left) are currently leading negotiations with EU governments on the draft VAW law. One of the things they are pushing is the introduction of “comprehensive sexuality and relationship education” in all EU countries as a way to prevent violence against women. 👇
The World Health Organisation’s guidelines make it clear that this includes asking kids from age five to question their sex and gender and from nine to be able to declare their “gender identity”.
This basically means teaching very young children that “gender identity” exists as a fact rather than a disputed ideological concept. In fact, there is absolutely no scientific or academic consensus on this question.
It doesn’t matter what door they use - it’s still our house
So, again, while Irish parents and many others across Europe are fighting against indoctrination in education, our MEPs are currently fighting to bring it in through the back door. They act with impunity because no one is really paying attention. But let’s not forget that it’s still our house.
It doesn’t matter what door they use, these are still our elected representatives and we need to start paying attention to what they are doing so that we can hold them accountable. To do this successfully, we need to know what is going on (so follow WORIADS 😉), collaborate and support each other.
Here are some European educational and academic organisations fighting back on gender ideology in education. These organisations are holding the line for our kids and we should all be supporting them from every corner of Europe.
Visit these websites, retweet their stuff and share their ideas widely:
Belgium, Hypatia, Twitter @Hypatia_freedom
France, SOS Education, Twitter @soseducation
Germany, The Network for Academic Freedom, Twitter @NetzwerkW
Ireland, Irish Education Alliance, Twitter @education_irish
Scotland, Scottish Education Union, Twitter @ScotUnionEd
Spain Docentes Feministas por la Coeducación, Twitter @DoFemCo
The Netherlands, SpinozaGroep, Twitter @spinozagroep
UK, Safe Schools Alliance, Twitter @SafeSchools_UK
Do you know of any others? Please let us know in the comments!
The future is…. queer? 🙄
Legislation is not the only way the European Union pushes the queer agenda. They are also pumping EU cash (i.e. your taxes) into organisations like ILGA Europe and Transgender Europe which lobby relentlessly on things like gender self-id and removing age limits for “gender affirmative care”.
Actually, Transgender Europe publishes a very handy EU-funded Trans Rights Map which you can check to find out the state of play in your country on things like self-id laws, hate speech laws and special asylum arrangements for non-binary people.
One striking example of how the EU uses our taxes to promote gender ideology is the Erasmus+ Programme. It’s supposed to be about promoting education and European youth exchanges. And it does do this - you will find plenty of examples of excellent projects being funded under this programme.
But the civil servants running the programme have decided to add fortune telling to their duties, jubilantly declaring to the world that “The Future is Queer”.
And if the unelected civil servants behind Erasmus+ have anything to say about it the future will indeed be queer. While outraged German parents protest against kids being subjected to drag queen story time with Eric “Big Clit”, the Erasmus+ officials are splashing out with the EU cash to train a whole new generation of “ Little Clits”.
They are doing this by funding initiatives like Drag it up which is coordinated by the German group Critical Queer Solidarity in Berlin. The project involves training young people from six other EU countries (Spain, Romania, Slovenia, Greece, Italy and Poland) about how to cope with “heteronormativity” through gender identity expression i.e.“ makeup, wigs, walking in high heels and other methods of blurring and exaggerating traditional binary gender roles”. Participants also receive instruction on “queer activism”.
Similar EU-funded projects include Dragtivism 3.0 and TransYouth. The problem with this is that until very recently it was generally accepted that drag performances constituted a form of adult entertainment. Now it is being mainstreamed in a publicly funded youth initiative with no debate i.e. through the back door.
It’s unhelpful that the EU is weighing in heavily with a particular ideological agenda on a societal question that really needs to be hashed out at a more grassroots level. We need to have a public conversation (minus the transphobia caterwauling) about the rapid increase in gender-confused youth and how we should deal with this. Using public funds to churn out queer activists who think wigs, makeup and high heels are the keys to self-acceptance may not be the best way forward.
Leaving you the links
Our next newsletter will appear at the end of August with a more in-depth update on the draft VAW law and some commentary on a few events in the European Parliament that highlight how detransitioners are being thrown under the bus and how the EU’s push for “conversion therapy” bans is paving the way for gender non-conforming kids to be locked into a path to life long medicalisation. In the meantime, we leave you with the relevant links below:
VAW
European Council Position (this is the common approach to the VAW agreed by all EU governments. If anyone fancies trawling through this document & highlighting key points - that would be so amazing… 🙄)
Exchange of views in the EP on depathologising transgender and nonbinary people. Download the video here
European Parliament Hearing on Banning Conversion Therapies Download the video here
We hope that you are all having a fantastic summer 😎☀️🦩
WORIADS
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