Timeline

Timeline of Gender Ideology

2022
Don’t Say Gay Law is passed in Florida

Don’t Say Gay Law is passed in Florida. It mirrors the 2013 Russia “anti-gay propaganda law.” Meanwhile Russia passes a sweeping law that forbids any public display of lgbtq existence.

Roe v. Wade Overturned

The Supreme Court overruled the precedent set by Roe v. Wade in the case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

2018
Viktor Orban shuts down gender studies in Hungary

Viktor Orban, known for his war against gender ideology as well as his anti-immigrant stance, shuts down gender studies in Hungary

2016
Pro-abortion protests break out in Poland

Pro-abortion protests break out in Poland with hundreds of thousands of activists taking to the streets in the Black Protests to demand that the extremely strict abortion laws, in place for decades, be overturned.

Donald Trump is elected President of the United States

Donald Trump is elected President of the United States. He continues to speak out against “gender ideology.”

North Carolina passes the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Ac

North Carolina passes the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, aka the “bathroom bill” that prevented people from using bathrooms other than those that matched the sex assigned at birth. It also barred cities, counties and municipalities from enacting any anti-discrimination policies not already covered by North Carolina state law.…Read More

2015
Law and Justice Party comes to power in Poland

Law and Justice Party comes to power in Poland with consistent attacks on “gender ideology,” abortion rights and LGBTQ rights.

2013
Anti-gay propaganda law passed in Russia

Anti-gay Propaganda law is passed in Russia making it illegal to discuss LGBTQ existence with minors. This follows right on the heels of massive protests against Vladimir Putin in 2011 demanding he not resume the Presidency and criticizing corrupt elections.

2011
Istanbul Convention

Experts drafting the negotiations on the Istanbul Convention had no direct political pressure and opted for the social constructionist approach to define “gender.” This was the first such definition in an international treaty. The definition was as follows: “gender” shall mean the socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities and attributes that…Read More

2001
Pope John Paul II makes statement on gender

Pope John Paul II, influenced by O’Leary’s book, declared that “misleading concepts concerning sexuality and the dignity and mission of the woman” are driven by “specific ideologies on ‘gender.’”

1998
Rome Statute

Gender was defined within the Rome Statute as the following: “For the purposes of this Statute, it is understood that the term ‘gender’ refers to the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society. The term ‘gender’ does not indicate any meaning different from the above”. This definition…Read More

1997
Dale O’Leary publishes The Gender Agenda

Dale O’Leary publishes The Gender Agenda and coins the term “gender ideology”

1995
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing

At the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the Platform for Action was drafted, but the term gender was left undefined.

1994
International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo

International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo – meaning of gender discussed, but left undefined.

1993
Third World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna

The term gender first appeared at the insistence of feminist activists in the outcome document of the Third World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.