While populism and anti-rights narratives increasingly threaten the rights of women and LGBTI communities, movements around the world—from #metoo to creative activism by young feminists in the global South to decades of activism by LGBTI persons at the UN—offer hope. There is a growing recognition of what feminist and LGBTI scholars and practitioners have long been arguing: that gender is not not just about women and LGBTI persons, but about power dynamics, masculinity, behavioural expectations, constructed identities, and harmful inequalities. How far has the human rights movement come on gender and sexuality, and how far does it have yet to go?
