Latin America is being threatened by radical religious groups and electoral politicians who have deployed a regional strategy. The aim has been to oppose the advancement of sexual and reproductive rights, as well as to roll back LGBT rights, including sex education in schools, legal recognition of all family types and recognition of the rights of transgender people.

This is why the documentary "Gender under Attack" was developed, an audiovisual production that shows the rationale, strategies and actors behind these mobilisations that take advantage of parents' genuine concerns and fears about children's rights, used in their campaigns, all in order to spread hatred and mobilise prejudice against LGBT people. It is not an isolated event, it is not a religious movement, it is not a children's rights movement; it is a political strategy to roll back the rights to equality, dignity and freedom from violence and discrimination of women and LGBT people around the world. This is demonstrated by the director of the documentary, Peruvian Jerónimo Centurión, with this audiovisual work developed in Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Panama.

"Gender under Attack explores this ongoing movement in four countries where politics, electoral processes, advances in educational content and even a referendum to end armed conflict have been put at risk. Instead, dangerous social divisions based on mistrust and fear are being installed. Hateful slogans, misinformation and manipulation based on fallacious and evidence-free arguments are being used as a means of
The massification of the democratic discourses that propose a society where all differences can be accommodated and where no single model of human being is privileged.

The film shows examples of the actions of these groups in four countries: Costa Rica, for example, came close to electing an ultra-conservative and homophobic evangelical pastor as president, who threatened to leave the OAS if they insisted on supporting equal marriage.

In Peru, he analyses the growing violence against women and the political pressures of evangelical groups, allied to Fujimorism, that seek to end the gender focus in schools. In Brazil, he explores a context where conservatives have removed the word Gender from the national education curriculum and the most conservative and fascist politician in its history has just won the presidency. And in Colombia, how radical religious groups contributed to the NO vote.
in the peace plebiscite that sought to end 50 years of conflict with the FARC guerrillas.

It is a production that provides evidence of how the actions of these groups respond to a coordinated work with forces opposed to democracy. It also identifies that behind this coordination there is a pact, an alliance between the Catholic Church and the most important evangelical churches, institutions that were rivals for centuries, but which have joined forces to gain political power and, from there, to stop the recognition of women's and people's rights.
LGBT.