Western Countries Push Hard on Trans/Homosexual Issues at High-Level Forum

By | July 28, 2022

NEW YORK, July 29 (C-Fam) Western delegates made it plainly known that “gender equality” includes homosexual and transgender ideology and much more at the High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development which concluded last week.

“Gender-based frameworks are not only essential to understand inequalities that affect women and girls in all their diversity. They are also essential to dismantle and deconstruct systems of violent and toxic masculinity,” said Victor Madrigal-Borloz, during the annual summit that reviews progress on the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.

Madrigal-Borloz, the UN Independent Expert on Violence and Discrimination on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, also thought of as the UN LGBT Czar, was chosen by Western countries to voice their complete views on gender on the day set aside to debate Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality.

Madrigal-Borloz explained that the integration of homosexual and transgender issues with “gender” is being accomplished through international and domestic policies that include “intersectional frameworks” that target “women in all their diversity.”

Traditional countries, as is often the case, did not respond overtly to these provocations during the two week summit, but they ensured that the outcome of the Summit did not make any progress for homosexual and transgender ideology. Even though the outcome included language on “sexual and reproductive health” in a stand-alone paragraph for the first time, the paragraph simply copied previous UN agreements, without adding any focus on sexual autonomy.

A statement submitted by the U.S. delegation complained that the final agreement of the summit “did not more explicitly address” issues related to sexual autonomy and gender ideology. And delegates from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, and other western countries reflected these same sentiments during the summit.

On the other side, the Holy See called on countries to appreciate the unique “feminine genius” and the important role that women play in the family. The Holy See also denounced the “subtle discrimination against motherhood” that women face in society.

“Gender” is a term that is now pervasive in UN agreements even though countries diverge greatly on how they understand the term. For traditional countries, “gender” is just another word for “sex.”  It refers to men and women, and nothings else. This is the definition of gender enshrined in international law through the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Accordingly, for traditional countries, gender equality means affording women the same opportunities in society as men.

For Western countries “gender” means much more than equality between men and women in society. It represents a transformation of society from sexual mores based on marriage and family formation to sexual independence and autonomy divorced from responsibility to the family.

To achieve this gender transformation, sexual activity outside of marriage, including for children, is celebrated as a form of emancipation from traditional family norms. And so is sexual activity that divorces sex from reproduction through abortion and contraception, as well as sexual norms that deny the biological reality of men and women as, for example, homosexuality and transgender ideology.

Consistent with this rationale, Madrigal-Borlo called on countries to provide access to sexual and reproductive health services and to empower children through comprehensive sexuality and gender education.

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