Desires of nongovernmental organizations
More than 221 million euros ($242 million) in European Union funds have been used to advance a “radical” gender identity agenda, according to a report.
On March 17, the think tank MCC Brussels released a report that calculated that millions in EU funds have been given to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to promote gender identity ideology over the past decade.
Report author and sociologist Ashley Frawley said the findings show that activists have played a direct role in drafting EU policies.
Frawley said that the policies, originally designed to protect women and girls, have been reshaped to prioritize gender identity.
She added that they have been made without “broader public consultation and with an air of disregard for the principle of subsidiarity and national sovereignty.”
The conservative think tank has been critical of EU policies and has published reports by experts on free speech, digital laws, and net-zero.
Gender ideology is a concept where “gender identity” refers to the belief that a person may have been born in “the wrong body,” as opposed to the view that humans are either male or female and that biological sex is immutable.
However, gender self-identification has been raised by numerous LGBT and women’s groups as encroaching on the privacy and rights of women and same-sex attracted people.
“This shift has been driven not by democratic debate or public demand, but by a powerful network of EU-funded NGOs that have embedded their priorities deep within EU policy making,” the report said of the millions spent on the gender identity agenda.
The data was collected from the Financial Transparency System (FTS) for groups focused on or generally supportive of gender identity that received funding between 2014 and 2023.
The most, 64.95 million euros ($71 million), was allocated solely to ILGA Worldwide, a leading gender identity advocacy group.
Other beneficiaries included ILGA Worldwide’s European arm, ILGA-Europe (16 million euros, or $17.5 million).
Others included the international LGBT organization IGLYO (6 million euros), Transgender Europe (TGEU) (4.6 million euros), the lesbian feminist and intersectional network (6.2 million euros), and Organisation Intersex International Europe (1.2 million euros).
By Owen Evans
