The RESIST Project Report: Effects of, and Resistances to ‘Anti-Gender’ Mobilisations Across Europe: A Report on Nine Case Studies

Abstract

There is a well-documented surge in what is termed ‘anti-gender’ politics. This study examines the impact of 'anti-gender' mobilisations, attacks, institutional discrimination and resistances across nine case studies in Europe: Belarus, people living in exile in Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain: Catalonia and Basque Country, and Switzerland. This report shows the effects of 'anti-gender' on those subject to them: feminist and LGBTIQ+ people and communities, and their responses and resistances to these politics. The term ‘anti-gender’ is not used, or only used in very specific ways, across the case studies. The report focuses on qualitative data from 254 feminist and LGBTIQ+ activists, public intellectuals, and members of the general public, specifically their experiences of anti-LGBTIQ+, anti-feminism, anti-abortion and anti-sex work, as well as sexualised/gendered racisms and other intersectional marginalisations gathered through 104 interviews and 36 focus groups between January and May 2024.