Round Table – “Resisting the Backlash: Supporting Feminist Strategies Against Anti-Gender Movements in France and Europe”

Across Europe, reactionary forces are gaining ground: anti-gender movements, far-right parties, anti-feminist and LGBTQIA+ hostile policies. The conservative backlash is increasingly organised, funded, and deployed transnationally. While France has recently strengthened certain rights — such as enshrining abortion in the Constitution — it is not immune to this offensive. Anti-gender campaigns led by far-right groups, influential media figures, and conservative think tanks target sexuality education, trans rights, feminist and LGBTQIA+ organisations, and the so-called “woke agenda.”