Inside Europe’s billion-dollar anti-gender movement

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Overall, the European donor base spans a heterogenous alliance of moneyed aristocrats, ultra-conservative tech entrepreneurs, and ideologically aligned businesses. Alongside private donors, the report uncovered that a critical amount of money — at least $171 million or 14% of the total amount — stems from EU public funding.

When it comes to public funding, the political patronage model outlined by Datta showed that not only governments, but also the EU itself has systematically channelled cash to anti-gender groups disguised as youth organisations via its Erasmus programme — including the World Youth Alliance (WYA), a Catholic NGO that lobbies against abortion in family planning, since 2009.

At the same time, Datta and his team found out that some anti-gender groups were, in turn, funnelling money into like-minded European political parties — notably the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and the far-right Patriots for Europe parliamentary groups. A recurrent sponsor of the ECR is the French Fonds de dotation GT Editions, an endowment fund that supports a constellation of conservative Catholic news outlets.

Full article https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/inside-europes-billioneuro-antigender-movement

The Next Wave: How Religious Extremism Is Regaining Power
(report referenced in the article)
https://www.epfweb.org/node/1147

😂 you mean abortion rights for women based on their sex?

deja vu

What's your take on this @IwantToRetire ?

It’s not anti gender it Appears to be groups that hold more traditional values ( often those linked to religious belief) are you suggesting that these groups should be unfunded because they don’t believe in gender?

Do you and Bee have a rota? how do you decide what to post?

There's a really strange trend now on FWR with posters who have nothing to say, but think they have spotted an angle or something.

Dont feel the need to justify myself, but for those who seem locked in some psycho I am a news nerd, or rather follow various news feeds for not FWR, so when something comes up that is maybe of interest to FWRers I post the links.

And strange is it may seem having knowledge of research that is being published is actually important.

If you aren't interested in the info in the link just to bother to comment.

Find something that actually interests you.

The other point is and this shouldn't need to be said but if you comment without reading the article 99 times out of a 100 your comment want reflect what the article is saying..

And just to labour it even more for those who cant seem to grasp the function of a forum where issues can be discussed, it links to the recent thread about some European rights should right a report about trans rights in the UK.

Me looking for some actual, verified facts in this article. ⬆️

Sorry OP, but there's already a thread on the conspiracy theories in that particular article.
Might be worth posting on that thread and asking MN to take this one down so we don't have duplicate threads on the same topic.
Edited to add the other thread is here:
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5362919-inside-europes-billion-dollar-anti-gender-movement

you did this thread a couple of days ago and it didn't go how you wanted it to

Firstly this has already been posted and secondly the linked article is, well, interesting from a native English speaking POV - using the word gender to mean sexual orientation, actual sex, and gender identity woo.

It's an interesting example of how global English is nothing like native English and a whole bunch of subtleties and different meanings are lost in translation.

Thirdly it hardly touches on trans rights except in the most basic way which the UK has long since moved beyond.

Sure if I was living in Hungary I'd be concerned about women's rights, gay rights and trans rights but in Western Europe putting those things in the same basket is just bollocks.

Theres a really strange trend over the last few days of OPs posting a link to an article without actually starting the discussion they claim to want.

Right, now do the funding of trans groups. Remember it turned out that Stonewall were the ones being funded by the US government?!!

The OP has started threads on interesting and relevant articles numerous times in the past and participates in discussions on their own and other threads. Not a bad faith poster imo and definitely not a tra.

There was another thread started by someone else a few days ago on this article iirc. The OP for that one couldn't be more different.

but we don't need two threads about it. Posting your own when there is already a thread is far too "look at me" and not engaging with the subject, don'T you think?

I've done it myself when a hurry and a quick scan has overlooked an existing thread. I'm usually mortified. It would help if MN searches worked a little better. I don't know if it's better to have two threads on an interesting or important subject than none at all because posters are worried about duplication.

The current 'look at me' threads all have a different pretext for starting them but they're, tiresomely, all the same. Goady with little, if any, real engagement from the OP.