“CONMIHIJOSNOTEMETAS” O Movimento Antigênero na Educação da América Latina

Abstract

The text presents the attacks on education in Latin America by religious and political fundamentalists when discussing the terms gender and sexual diversity in schools. Based on a recent bibliographic review, up to 2022, we address how the opposition to the "gender ideology" in Latin America by conservative, political and religious groups, has turned into anti-gender ideology and as political and symbolic capital, both for religious and for politicians. It is noted how the strategies of spreading false information and mobilizing against policies related to gender equality and sexual diversity have turned into moral and sexual panic. To understand this anti-gender movement, we used a multi-situated methodology with multi-situated sources, mainly on Latin American news sites and on Facebook social media pages, where anti-gender movements use sensationalism, and sometimes conspiracy theories, to cause impacts on their readers. The study investigated how this regionalized attack occurs in the context of the global south, what are its strategies, and what is the impact of these actions on the community and the community and its minority members.

Keywords: Anti-gender; Latin America; Education; Moral panic.