United Nations rejects U.S. effort to erase trans women: “It stops here”. One advocate accused the U.S. of being “willing to lie” to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system.”

>The failed resolution came after the U.S. also failed at the beginning of the conference to introduce amendments to the conference’s agreed conclusions. Those amendments included the redefinition of gender, along with others that align with the current presidential administration’s positions on gender equality, DEI, reproductive rights, climate change, and digital regulation. After CSW delegates voted against the amendments, the U.S. forced a vote on the agreed conclusions, marking the first time in the conference’s 70-year history that the document was not adopted by consensus. The U.S. was the only member state to vote against the agreed conclusions, which represent CSW’s priorities and guidelines on gender equality and justice for the world community. >Speaking to Devex, Jennifer Rauch, global advocacy officer at Fòs Feminista, accused the U.S. of being “willing to lie” to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system.” >During last Thursday’s final CSW session at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, the representative from Belgium said that the U.S. resolution was “factually incorrect as it misquotes and contradicts Annex IV of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and attempts to rewrite what was carefully agreed and reflected in Beijing over 30 years ago.” >On behalf of 25 other member states, Belgium called for a “no action motion” to block the proposal. Pakistan and Chile were the only two member states to vote with the U.S. against the motion, with 23 countries voting to block the anti-trans proposal and 17 abstaining. >“It was a huge moment of the world telling the U.S. that it stops here,” María Paula Perdomo of the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Outright International told Devex. “We follow the rules, and if you want to bring this, do it appropriately, do it with due process, and bring it with truth.” I don't get what Christian nationalists get out of being so cruel and hateful towards trans people. They think they are winning souls to Christ by kicking trans people into the dirt. To me, it's the biggest repellent to Jesus. If being a Christian means being a hateful bigot that spits in the face of trans people and plots to commit genocide against them because "The Bible tells me so!", then I'd rather never be a Christian and join my trans friends in hell for eternity. It sounds better than being where they are.

Good. More of this, please.

Trans Rights are Human Rights

The US conservative Christian ideology doesn’t have an ability to stand on its own merits like everyone else’s does which is why they literally have to change the laws of their societal reality in order to make it succeed. These right wing clowns are pathetic, their way of life is unsustainable & we need to be aggressive about making them realise that fact.

Human rights. Legislation attempting to erase trans people with the focus on trans-women is misogynistic, but they are happy to erase trans-men, as well.

This makes me sick. The people representing our nation are utterly reprehensible. 

Glad to see the world pushing back against chuds instead of attempting the failed policy of appeasement.

Yes, call these people out. Hopefully the rest of the world can speak the truth unlike our lying “elected” officials.

No quarter for these psychos. The whole world should just reject us entirely until the right wing is demolished and we can rebuild some semblance of trust. Christian nationalism is a f****** disease.

It's the fact that they care so much that bothers me. Who cares. Why are you threatened by this. B**** ass pussies.

This is a crucial step for human rights everywhere.

Unfortunately as great as it is that the UN pushed back, the UN itself has no actual arm of enforcement, and most of their policies and resolutions are just performative suggestions that nobody is actually required to follow. I mean ffs they have some of the world's most regressive countries on their human rights board. And USA is increasingly looking like it's just going to start using its military to terrorize UN members into complying with their regressive ideologies. The US may have failed this time, but I fear that eventually they aren't going to be merely asking soon; they'll be *demanding*, and eventually *imposing* it by force.

In the defense of the US, not that they need it, but those lies worked pretty well during the War on Drugs.

They were willing to lie about a war, the economy, voting rights...

Trump? Willing to lie? Never!

Please open your programs to accept trans people. They’re not going to stop and they’re already doing batshit illegal and nonsensical medical experimentation on trans people in prisons and detention centers out of sheer hate. And it’s just getting started. We have nowhere to go and most of us are too poor to do anything about it.

Ok so anyone willing to let us queers in or is it just words as usual?

thankyou. the wholesale erasure being committed against ever non white CIS demographic is unacceptable and while preventable domestically it is only being ignored at best and enabled at worst.

Call them out UN and everyone else.

Im 35/f/fairly attractive/nice figure. I have lived in the biggest of cities to the smallest of towns and worked in events and hospitality for 15 years - traveled all over the world, student of anthropology before i realized I couldn’t make any money - but did earn a respect for all colors and creeds - so I have a pretty good sample size of humanity, I’d say. I have been catcalled, asked out in the line in the gas station and called a slur when I denied him, cornered leaving the hotel I worked for in Vegas, asked to come home with someone at 7:30 am in the grocery store, feeling someone following me to my car, sucker punched by a guy I cut off at the bar, fired because I denied access to someone important and was young and dumb and thought HR was for the employees (lol), I’ve been raped at a friends party…I could go on for pages. I’ve been the victim of severe mental, physical, emotional, financial abuse that almost ended in my murder multiple times. I’d say I have an uncomfortable interaction once a week. At minimum. I love men. I really do. Nearly to my own demise. But there wasn’t one scenario listed above or in my vast experience of men and abuse - that involved a trans person or a woman other than myself. I can’t believe we’re burning because these loser dudes don’t want to admit they’re gay (okay among many reasons, but yeah)

I'm sure all the Muslim majority and Christian African countries are opposed to the US initiative as well. 

Are they crazy? Gender ideology means thinking the word “trans women” has any meaning at all. Why do they purposely misunderstand?

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