The new dimensions of anti-gender policy in Brazil: report
This brief report was prepared by ANTRA-SPW-NUH/UFMG to inform the international public about these developments, which occurred immediately prior to the ILGA LAC Conference. It recaps and synthesizes the findings of recent reports on the current state of anti-gender politics in Brazil, with a special focus on the growing role of feminist currents that exclude trans people in the Brazilian context.
Mixed Signals: Gender Politics in March 2026
For several decades now, March has been the month when women’s rights are celebrated. The original intent of this newsletter was to draw attention to the mixed and disturbing signals we observe in the tumultuous landscape of March 2026.
Blurred Boundaries: english summary
This paper examines the emergence, consolidation, and political effects of antigender and trans-exclusionary feminist currents in Brazil between the 2010s and mid2020s, as mapped in Fronteiras Borradas: Movimentos Feministas e de Mulheres e Política Antigênero no Brasil (2025).
India rolls back trans rights: compilation
The Transgender Bill Doesn’t Amend Rights, It Erases Us – Article 14 Architecture of Erasure: How the Transgender Amendment Bill 2026 erases those it claims
Transgender women and intersex persons banned from Olympic women competition: compilation
English Statements and resources The International Olympic Committee polices women and girls and fails them – Ilga Olympics: Sex Testing Harms All Women and Girls
UN rapporteur promotes transphobia during Brazil visit
In meetings at the Supreme Court, Congress, and Brazilian universities, Reem Alsalem made anti-trans statements and was criticized by feminist and LGBTQIAPN+ organizations. By Dany Avelar (AzMina website), translated by SPW.
Sexual politics in the global disorder of 2025
This is our second and latest bulletin of 2025. It offers a broad overview of events and trends in gender, sexuality, and abortion policy throughout the year to complement the analysis developed in July that addressed the policies implemented by the Trump’s second administration and the US landscape.
Global Gag Rule expanded by Trump’s administration: explanatory summary
On January 22, Trump’s administrarion announced it was suspending the funding for foreign organizations that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. SPW summarized the main changes, which expand the restrictions set by the Mexico City Policy and will have many ramifications. Check it out below:
Transsexuality in the eyes of Genspect
Genspect was founded in 2021 by Irish psychotherapist Stella O’Malley. As will become clear later, it is based on a conservative ideology. Insidiously, it disrespects the transgender community and undermines their rights—namely, the right to undergo medically assisted gender transition—which is in clear dissonance with the current values of integration and acceptance of this group.
“Blurred Boundaries” maps the ecosystem of essentialist feminisms and their relationship with the anti-gender field
The Sexuality Policy Watch (SPW), the Center for LGBT+ Human Rights and Citizenship at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (NUH/UFMG), and the National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals (ANTRA) have released the research report “Blurred Boundaries: Feminist and Women’s Movements and Anti-Gender Politics in Brazil,” which is also supported by Ação Educativa, Cladem Brasil, Criola, Ipas Brasil, and the Nem Presa Nem Morta campaign.