The U.N. and the Advance of Gender Ideology in the Western Hemisphere
By Rick Plasterer, Juicy Ecumenism.
An earlier article reviewed a discussion of the advance of gender ideology in Europe by a Heritage Foundation panel on February 27. Jay Richards, moderator of the panel, noted that gender ideology is being pressed by powerful elite institutions, commonly against the popular will.
Grace Melton of the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family, at the Heritage Foundation moderated a following panel concerning the dominance of gender ideology at the United Nations, and examples of the ideology’s tyranny in the Western Hemisphere. People need to realize “how much the United Nations and its various bodies do to promote gender ideology.” She said that “the U.N. is a place where progressives can push their agendas without political repercussions.” But “gender ideology has a lot of victims.” Women particularly are victims of gender ideology. She asked how a society can combat violence against women if women cease to exist as a category. When ordinary citizens in a society understand “what gender ideology is” they commonly “don’t like it.” But if gender ideologists “can point to this huge international body” admonishing acceptance of the ideology (along with professional associations, it might be added), the ideology can prevail, despite its irrationality. Melton asked Ellie Cohanim, Senior Fellow, Independent Women’s Forum, what gets lost “when gender ideology colors the national conversation?”
Cohanim said that “it’s the real suffering of women that gets lost in the conversation.” She said that “all around the world” women’s voices against abuse are being silenced, really by the hurt feelings of deluded men. Having come from a Middle Eastern home, Cohanim was impressed by the achievements of women’s movements for equality in the West. Much of this is now being lost, she believes. The failure to see women as victims may be part of the reason, she suggested, that there was less protest of the mass and brutal rape that occurred as part of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7. She said that “the silence on international women’s organizations was deafening.”
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