Despite protests from women’s rights organisations, lesbians and gays, parents and detransitioners, the Commission promotes self-ID laws without age restrictions and seeks to embed gender identity across virtually every policy area: civil society, housing, transport, the economy, health, education, criminal law, family law, diplomacy, external action, asylum and, crucially, women’s rights. Yet there has been no evaluation of its consequences for women and girls, children and young people or lesbians and gays.
The Strategy points to a broad process of institutional capture, where a contested and unscientific concept of “gender identity” is treated as settled law and integrated into the EU’s policy machinery without democratic debate, evidence or impact assessment.
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