In this paper, I will discuss the role of “gender ideology” as a key element of the construction of field of adversity of the political radical right, with special emphasis on the case of South America. To do so, I will try to define first the main features of the radical right. Then, I will analyze regional and ideological specificities of the radical right and its links with anti-gender movements. Hence, I will try to historicize how the denunciation of gender ideology has become a key element of the cultural battle of religious activism and later of the radical right. Although there is no simple identification between anti-gender movements and the far right, many scholars have identified similar patterns of development and opportunistic synergies between them. More importantly, the attack on feminist and LGBTQI activism has become a key element for the articulation of different streams of the radical right, enabling forms of political cooperation between them. Therefore, I consider that the construction of gender ideology as an absolute enemy has had a strategic role for the rise of the radical right that we are experiencing in different geographies and that these developments are threatening liberal democracy.
Matías Leandro Saidel (Mon,) studied this question.