Irishman Michael O'Flaherty was rapporteur for the original Yogyakarta Principles (former President Mary Robinson one signatory) which now threaten women's rights as they attempt to replace "sex" with "gender identity" https://mercatornet.com/the-mysterious-power-of-an-international-transgender-declaration-that-no-one-has-ever-heard-of/66429/

"But despite scholarly journals often quoting these principles they are not recognised in international human rights law."

"But trans activists have turned them into powerful propaganda tools for transforming transgender rights into human rights... a recent submission by Amnesty Australia to a federal government inquiry into religious freedom quotes the Yogyakarta Principles over and over again."

"The 2017 document was signed by only 33 people.

Legally inconsequential

What is their legal status? They have none at all. They are just a Christmas shopping list for the transgender lobby."

"The Principles have never been accepted by the United Nations. Attempts to make gender identity and sexual orientation new categories of non-discrimination have been repeatedly rejected by the General Assembly, the Human Rights Council and other UN bodies."

"In fact, a majority of members of the General Assembly opposed any reference to the Yogyakarta Principles as they are seen as being contradictory to the position of the UN Human Rights Council."

"Compare this to the legal support that the international community has given to women. The Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the United Nations in 1979 and has been ratified by 189 states.." Ireland being one

The Yogyakarta Principles project is "largely coordinated by Allied Rainbow Communities, or ARC International (ARC), an NGO based in Canada." Feminist "Anna Zobnina notes that ARC is basically a lobby group, not an internationally representative organisation."

".that an innate feeling can lead to a change in an individual’s sex status at birth, with the corresponding legal entitlements and access to spaces and places reserved for girls and women..is a violation of the protections established over decades for women beginning with CEDAW"

"'It is not gender identity that is being protected, but the substitution of internal identity for recorded sex, upon the request of any person'. The legitimisation of this process is simply creating new forms of discrimination against girls & women & is in conflict with CEDAW."

"This is not to say that transgender people should not be protected, but replacing 'sex' with 'gender identity' not only erases sex as a category and girls and women as a class distinct from that of boys and men, but also erases girls’ and women’s human rights."

"They are often quoted misleadingly by members of parliament and trans lobby groups as though they had been adopted by UN resolution; and
Their full implementation would effectively make 'sex' a defunct legal category, replacing it by the ambiguous category of 'gender'."
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