From London's Pride to Egypt's "Fetra". The anti gender-ers are killers

Last weekend I made it to my first London Pride as the last two prides were canceled due to Covid. The pride was massive and mostly depoliticised with the participation of pretty much everyone. This depoliticisation also aims to present the LGBT struggle in the West as something from the past and everyone lives happy and equal life which is far from the truth. 

Homophobia in the west including the institutional attacks on transgender in the UK and the US is still reality and it still destroys people’s lives. The ban of conversation therapy that has excluded transgenders in the UK, Poland’s LGBT free zones, Hungary’s anti LGBT laws, and the rise of homophobia in the US has been unprecedented. 

As Owen Jones said in his latest article on the Guardian it’s unavoidable to connect the rise of homophobia and the rise in attacks against women. The Patriarchy targets both. The killing of women in the UK, the US and in Egypt is completely gender based. They are getting killed in the daylight just because they are women. Advocating for women rights in many locations is confronted by hard stubborn anti gender groups and individuals who know very well that deconstructing the patriarchal society and replacing it with an equal inclusive society will un-privilege them. They are willing to fight it til the end. 

In Egypt, lots of boycotting calls came in the pride month, against all the international companies who put the rainbow flag in their social media platforms. Although the local pages of these companies do not show any support to the LGBT people in the Arab countries. Yet, these anti LGBT groups did not stop their boycotting calls. 

Interestingly, this year the calls were more organised, and a Facebook page was created to help support all the groups/companies and businesses that do not support the lGBT rights and more certainly the pride month. Fetra or فطرة which translates into “Human Nature” has more than 130k likes. The slogan is a representation of a common narrative that aims to deauthenticate the normalisation of anything that is not heterosexual or any gender that does not fit into the ordinary male and female norms. Many groups and businesses added Fetre’s logo and colors to their social media platforms. 

Interestingly, Fetrah used the same colors that were used by the anti gender movement which was spotted in various locations including Europe and Latin America. 

This is unprecedented, it is an organised “peaceful” movement that is trying to fight back all the “gay propaganda” but would its influence remain peaceful though? Especially in countries which homophobia kills, and many get their lives destroyed just because they did not look like their perceived genders. 

Nayera, who was killed in June by a guy who refused his marriage proposal, was a text book Femicide which is supported by the traditional anti women rights forces who are benefiting from the patriarchy and its social structure. Were these groups peaceful? Their influence, their ideas, and their impact killed. Sarah who committed sucide in her exile in Canada after the homophobic attack on her for raising the rainbow flag. Isn't she killed because of the influence of this “peaceful” homophobia? Homophobia is never peaceful. Transphobia is never peaceful. Misogyny is Never peaceful. They kill.