Gender regime in the legal context of the member states of the European Union (content analysis essay)

Abstract

Authors carried out the content analysis of the gender regime in the normative legal acts of European intergovernmental organizations; the legislative framework of the member states of the European Union, judicial precedents in the field of implementation and ensuring the rights and opportunities for representatives of trans- and non-binary groups. Statistical data and author’s materials of sociological research were used in the article. Currently, two main, parallel processes are obvious: degenderization and multigenderization. They occur with the visible influence and control of the governments of particular states and intergovernmental organizations. The issue is widely covered and lobbied by European states acting as part of and on behalf of the European Union. However, European countries are heterogeneous in the implementation of gender and sexual equality policies. The ideas promoted by the EU, the intensity and tools can be considered as a mechanism for unification of the European space, ignoring historical, cultural and ideological features, and also calling into question the very statehood and sovereignty of the members of that association.