The U.N. Says Not Here-Not Now

United Nations rejects the United States' effort to erase trans women, sending the firm message of not here - not now.

On March 19, 2026, the final day of the 70th Annual Commision on the Status of Women (CSW) nine-day conference at the United Nations, the United States introduced a resolution calling on United Nations' member states to officially define “gender” as referring only to men and women. The resolution claimed that the landmark Beijing Declaration on women’s rights, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, already defined gender as “referring to men and women.” Delegates overwhelmingly voted against considering this proposal by the United States to adopt an anti-trans definition of “gender.”

“It was a huge moment of the world telling the U.S. that it stops here,” María Paula Perdomo of the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization Outright International said. “We follow the rules, and if you want to bring this, do it appropriately, do it with due process, and bring it with truth.” Perdoma, an international advocate, spoke against the U.S. attempt to “push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system.”