gender ideologies

Noun

gender ideology (countable and uncountable, plural gender ideologies)

1. The set of roles and assumptions in a particular culture that are associated with gender and pertain to non-sexual activities, such as occupation, appropriate expressions of emotion, etc.
   • Wollstonecraft's construction of femininity explicitly challenged the dominant gender ideology of her culture, the concept of the female promoted by conservative and radical thinkers alike, from Burke to Rousseau.1993, Anne Kostelanetz Mellor, Romanticism & Gender, →ISBN, page 107
2. The belief that gender is an innate identity separate from and often superseding birth sex.
   • Near-synonym: transgenderism

   Synonyms:

   transgenderism

3. (derogatory, conservatism) Efforts to recognize LGBTQ people, identities, and rights, framed as an ideology.
   • Although it appears to pursue the good end of honouring all people, it also assumes the whole linguistic fabric of gender ideology, which aims to eliminate the concepts of male and female, dismantle corporal identity and deconstruct the human body, marriage and family.2018 January 24, Jonathan Luxmoore, “Catholic bishops denounce LGBT diversity law”, in The Tablet