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UN draft report claims gender dysphoria is ‘socially contagious’
- Amelia Hansworth, Pink News
- Jul 15
- 2 min read
A United Nations draft report has claimed that there is a “concerted international push [to] erase” women, and that gender dysphoria is “socially contagious”.
The preliminary report on sex-based violence against women and girls from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said there are efforts to “delink the definition of men and women from their biological sex” and to “erase the legal category of women”.
The report, compiled by Reem Alsalem, the OHCHR’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, goes onto claim that those efforts denied women “their rightful recognition as a distinct category in law and society”.
Quoting a submission from gender-critical group For Women Scotland as a basis for a clause on the “erasure of sex-specific language,” Alsalem said that any UN member state which accepted trans women “denied females their own right to be recognised in law, as a distinct, particularly vulnerable group in need of targeted protection as envisaged by international law”.
The report, last updated on 16 June, follows the UK Supreme Court deeming the definition of woman in the 2010 Equality Act referred to a “biological woman.” The ruling has been used to exclude transgender people from public spaces.
Alsalem commended the ruling, saying it “protects women and girls under a distinct category”. She also claimed it provided “anti-discrimination rights” for trans people.
Using research from US sexologist Dr James Cantor, Alsalem echoed anti-trans dog-whistles, saying gender dysphoria was “socially contagious”, and highlighted what she called the “harmful consequences of social and medical transitioning of children”.
Cantor has shown support for fellow sexologist Ray Blanchard and his theory of autogynephilia, which suggets that trans women who are attracted to women develop gender dysphoria by misplacing their attraction to women onto themselves.
Alsalem’s claim also relied on the theory of Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria, which appears to have first been mentioned by researcher Lisa Littman, who later admitted it was not a formal diagnosis.
The special rapporteur recommended banning anyone under the age of 18 from legally and socially transitioning, suggesting instead psychological treatment to “address underlying neuro-developmental, psychological, or other conditions”.
She also called for the protection of “the rights of females to female-only spaces in situations in which such spaces are necessary and proportionate to the legitimate aim of ensuring [their] safety, dignity and protection”.
There is no hard evidence to back up the idea that trans women are a threat to cisgender women. Violence against all women, cis and trans, is committed primarily by cisgender men, according to the Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre.
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