The United Nations Women X account told their followers this week that trans lesbians are “lesbians too.”
QUICK FACTS:
- The UN Women account on X, formerly Twitter, claimed that “trans lesbians are lesbians too,” suggesting that men who identify as women can identify as lesbians as well.
- “Remember, trans lesbians are lesbians too. Let’s uplift and honour EVERY expression of love and identity! Happy International #LesbianDay!” UN Women tweeted.
- Critics immediately slammed the post, arguing that no one should care what the organization has to say anymore.
- “The United Nations has been captured to such a level and disgraced itself now to such a level that no one should care what the United Nations has to say again. It is time to untangle our nations from this rotten organization… and all the other ones just like it,” one user said.
- “This is not a parody. Any money we donate to the @UN should be stopped immediately,” another individual wrote.
X USER ON THE UNITED NATIONS WOMEN SUPPORTING LESBIANS BUT NOT JEWISH WOMEN IN THE HAMAS ATTACKS:
“And no moment of silence for the 1000 dead Jews caused by terrorist Hamas? Not a mention of the Jewish woman and babies beheaded by the Palestinians? Defund the UN,” one user tweeted.
BACKGROUND:
- In June 2022, the United Nations released a report regarding the “perceived contradictions” between religious freedom and sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI, laws and was looking to push governments to “fully comply with their obligations under international human rights law to protect and empower LGBT+ persons,” according to a U.N. announcement.
- The U.N. closed a call for LGBT+ and religious freedom organizations to submit input to the report earlier this month and is scheduled to introduce its findings at the 53rd Human Rights Council meeting in June, according to the announcement.
- The announcement explained that while there are “perceived contradictions” between the LGBT+ community and religious freedom, the report aimed to find ways to “protect LGBT+ persons’ access to faith and spirituality” while also indicating that religious beliefs that would contradict this are not “justified” under the protection of human rights.
- “Religious and spiritual narratives have also historically been used to promote, enable, and condone institutional and personal violence and discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation or gender identity (real or presumed); repress sexual and gender diversity; and promote cis-gendered and heteronormative norms of sexual orientation and gender identity,” the announcement read. “These practices cannot be justified under the rubric of Freedom of Religious Beliefs, or indeed any other human right, to circumvent and defeat the rights of marginalized populations.”
