Trump administration wants to remove 'gender' from UN human rights documents

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian


Exclusive: US diplomats have pushed for rewriting of collective statements to remove language inclusive of transgender people

Julian Borger in New York
Thu 25 Oct 2018 01.00 EDT

The US mission to the United Nations is seeking to eliminate the word “gender” from UN human rights documents, most often replacing it with “woman”, apparently as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to define transgender people out of existence.

At recent meetings of the UN’s Third Committee, which is concerned with “social, humanitarian and cultural” rights, US diplomats have been pushing for the rewriting of general assembly policy statements to remove what the administration argues is vague and politically correct language, reflecting what it sees as an ‘ideology’ of treating gender as an individual choice rather than an unchangeable biological fact.

For example, in a draft paper on trafficking in women and girls introduced by Germany and Philippines earlier this month, the US wants to remove phrases like “gender-based violence” would be replaced by “violence against women”.

“We are seeing this more and more coming up on the Third Committee, and this is going to be a battle in the coming weeks,” said a UN diplomat. The diplomat noted that US policy on the word is not entirely consistent.


Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/24/trump-administration-gender-transgender-united-nations

[sakabatou]

1. My god, when does it END?!

[lisby]

7. It ends in Civil War. NT

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. When enough people vote where it counts. NT

[Solly Mack]

2. Ignorant, cruel, vicious pieces of shit.

[thbobby]

3. gop is a mob family peddling hatred

They campaign with hatred and govern with greed and hatred. Criminals using hatred to stay in power.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. TrumPutin is scared

Bet he was surprised, enraged, and terrified when he did some grabbing at some time.

Our tax dollars will have to pay for that thing's psycho treatments if the diet doesn't do him in.

[ck4829]

5. Later in the article, it states that this will be an uphill battle for the WH

To really do this they will have to make an alliance with middle east nations and of course... Russia.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. Later on they'll want to remove the line about violence against women too

They don't really care about that either.

[marble falls]

8. Of course they do. Minimize, minimize, minimize, make disapear. I will agree ONLY ...

if they resort to using feminine words instead of the usual "mankind", "men" etc. Of course their testosterone will never ever let that happen.

I'm ashamed of being a white male. By eliminating gender they'll make it all about their own personal, "human" rights.