Family, rights and resistance: responding to anti-gender backlash

Family should not be used to restrict rights. It should stand for equality, autonomy, safety and freedom from violence.

This resource explores how anti-rights and anti-gender movements are using the language of “family” to challenge gender equality, bodily autonomy, LGBTQI+ rights and protection from violence. It maps the problem and offers practical ways to reclaim family as a rights-based narrative rooted in care, dignity and inclusion.

Part of SDDirect’s resistance series, this resource is offered as a public good to support activists, advocates and allies working to resist anti-rights agendas and defend rights for all families, in all their diversity.