Trump administration wants to remove 'gender' from UN human rights documents
US officials have pushed for rewriting of collective statements to remove language inclusive of transgender people
US officials at the United Nations are seeking to eliminate the word gender from UN human rights documents, most often replacing it with woman, apparently as part of the Trump administrations campaign to define transgender people out of existence.
At recent meetings of the UNs Third Committee, which is concerned with social, humanitarian and cultural rights, US officials have been pushing for the rewriting of general assembly policy statements to remove what the administration argues is vague and politically correct language, reflecting what it sees as an ideology of treating gender as an individual choice rather than an unchangeable biological fact.
For example, in a draft paper on trafficking in women and girls introduced by Germany and the Philippines earlier this month, the US wants to remove phrases such as gender-based violence and replace them with violence against women.
The US officials involved in the changes are understood to have been sent from Washington, and were not full-time diplomats in the US mission.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/24/trump-administration-gender-transgender-united-nations