Education, Sexuality and Anti-gender Movements in Latin America
Education, Sexuality and Anti-gender Movements in Latin America

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the discourses of anti-gender movements circulating in Braziland Argentina. The aim of our research is to determine the regularities and specificities of thesemovements. Specifically, it analyses the representations that are mobilised in the politicalsphere about gender and sexuality and the role that is attributed to the school institutionin these matters. Therefore, an analysis is made of the discussion relating to legislative bills andthe parliamentary debates that took place on the Escola Sem Partido (ESP) in Brazil between2014 and 2017 and on the Interrupción Voluntaria del Embarazo (IVE) in Argentina in 2018.The focus here is exclusively on the discourse employed in favour of the ESP project in Braziland against the IVE in Argentina, since the ESP and the IVE are opposed to the expansionof rights relating to gender and sexuality. Finally, we concluded that the anti-gender discoursein these countries shares with the religious discourse its precepts relating to gender andsexuality issues. However, the current discourse of this movement is not positioned groundedin religious discourse. Instead, it appeals to scientific and legal discourses as a mechanismof establishing legitimacy and as a way of attracting a wider audience.

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