A storm in the UN following a study on women's protection: "The top blow to sex ideology"
date: July 04, 2025 Editor: Anna
The UN peculiar rapporteur on force against women and girls, Reem Alsal, caused a storm with her fresh study at the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council. The paper submitted, which deals with the protection of women on the basis of sex (biological, not social, or gender), constitutes, according to the publicists of the portal C-Fam Stefano Gennarini, J.D. and Iulia-Elena Cazan, "the top blow given to sex ideology since the concept of sex was first introduced into United Nations politics".
The study states that sex ideology violates global law and harms women and girls. It besides recalls to governments attempts to erase references to "mothers", "women" and "girls" in policies and programmes, specified as referring mothers as "maternity or giving birth" and women as "bleeders" and "menores". His author called on politicians to preserve gender-based categories in language, politics and data. She said that the failure to do so has "catastrophic" consequences for women due to the fact that it leads governments to overlook their exceptional weaknesses and exposure them to increased force and discrimination.
"It is not only incorrect for women to express their language and their gender-based needs. It's humiliating. It is backward and is 1 of the worst forms of force against women and girls they can experience," said Alsal. According to her, global law protects women on the basis of their biological sex alternatively than their subjective self-identification, and ‘sexual identity’ is not a protected legal category. She said that women have the right to peculiar protection against violence, including the space reserved exclusively for them, and that those who subjectively identify as transgender do not have the same protection. Moreover, the largest area of UN policy and programming in which sex ideology has influenced is "violence against women and girls". Rejecting decades of biological rights and policies to defend women, over the last 2 decades, Western governments have promoted a fresh category of "social gender-based violence" which is not included in any UN Treaty. These policies combine sex issues with LGBT issues, thus distracting women.
"I never expected that the day would come erstwhile my mandate would make it essential to prepare a study stating that the words ‘women’ and ‘girls’ mention to separate biological and legal categories," said Alsalem, presenting his report. According to Jordanian politics, he has "strongly emotional reactions" and influential governments and agencies of the UN have tried to discredit it. The European Union has stated that the sex approach is required by global law, and Switzerland, the Netherlands and Colombia (on behalf of 37 countries, mainly European and Latin American) have called the position Alsalem "a step backwards". Canada stated that "gender is simply a social construct, not limited to anatomy, and highly crucial to realize how discrimination and force work in different contexts". According to Germany, ‘binar classification and exclusional terminology can marginalise groups specified as LGBTQI+, sex workers, people with disabilities and homeless people’. The recommendations contained in the study besides rejected the UN's leading agendas, specified as UN Women, UNFPA, WHO and UNICEF, citing an argument akin to the EU. Only the Holy See, Kuwait, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Sudan expressed their support for Alsalam.
Source: White Raven
"It is not only incorrect for women to express their language and their gender-based needs. It's humiliating. It is backward and is 1 of the worst forms of force against women and girls they can experience," said Alsal. According to her, global law protects women on the basis of their biological sex alternatively than their subjective self-identification, and ‘sexual identity’ is not a protected legal category. She said that women have the right to peculiar protection against violence, including the space reserved exclusively for them, and that those who subjectively identify as transgender do not have the same protection. Moreover, the largest area of UN policy and programming in which sex ideology has influenced is "violence against women and girls". Rejecting decades of biological rights and policies to defend women, over the last 2 decades, Western governments have promoted a fresh category of "social gender-based violence" which is not included in any UN Treaty. These policies combine sex issues with LGBT issues, thus distracting women.
"I never expected that the day would come erstwhile my mandate would make it essential to prepare a study stating that the words ‘women’ and ‘girls’ mention to separate biological and legal categories," said Alsalem, presenting his report. According to Jordanian politics, he has "strongly emotional reactions" and influential governments and agencies of the UN have tried to discredit it. The European Union has stated that the sex approach is required by global law, and Switzerland, the Netherlands and Colombia (on behalf of 37 countries, mainly European and Latin American) have called the position Alsalem "a step backwards". Canada stated that "gender is simply a social construct, not limited to anatomy, and highly crucial to realize how discrimination and force work in different contexts". According to Germany, ‘binar classification and exclusional terminology can marginalise groups specified as LGBTQI+, sex workers, people with disabilities and homeless people’. The recommendations contained in the study besides rejected the UN's leading agendas, specified as UN Women, UNFPA, WHO and UNICEF, citing an argument akin to the EU. Only the Holy See, Kuwait, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Sudan expressed their support for Alsalam.
Source: White Raven
