The Far-Right’s Attack on Gender and LGBTQI Rights and the Need for an intersectional Feminist Response

Around the world as in Europe, the far-right and their nationalist and fascist project, are targeting LGBTQIA+ and women rights as a scapegoat to justify and enforce a need for an authoritarian society protecting their wealth and power. This scapegoating strategy at large in fact targets all kinds of people already vulnerable and or marginalized in society, notably racialised people. It seems crucial at the moment to understand these dynamics and attacks as part of the same political project to ensure a common and intersectional response. 

At the European level, these far right movements managed to worsen migrant rights over the years, with a peak reached with the European Union’s pact on asylum and migration that got into application starting in June 2026; they’ve also been forces limiting human rights wins, for example by refusing to support the ban of conversion therapies. 

In various European countries, far right elected governments have been able to diminish reproductive rights for women, and other very popular unelected political parties have the project to do so. They consider gender rights as a threat to a conservative society vision, in which the vulnerable have to stay vulnerable and oppressed in order to keep their own political power; it is the roots of democracy that they want to attack. 

The FIERCE study, conducted by European Alternatives and partners, analyzed feminist movements in Europe as actors vitalizing democracy. In this context Greece shows a 

This panel will explore how these scapegoating mechanisms are put in place and what are the links and risks with the political projects that are behind. This analysis will help us to think of organizing ways to reclaim our power back and apply counter strategies to protect our collective rights together. This panel will cover both the Greek context and build links with other European actors to stimulate transeuropean thinking and collaboration.