"Cristal Downing of the International Crisis Group said that at the time, member states 'agreed to disagree' on interpretations of the word. They were more comfortable with leaving the term open to interpretation than they were with any attempt to create a shared definition."
"Jennifer Rauch, global advocacy officer at Fòs Feminista, accused the U.S. of being 'willing to lie' to 'push forward their own gender ideology onto people in the U.N. system.'"
"The representative from Belgium stated that the U.S. resolution was 'factually incorrect as it misquotes and contradicts Annex IV of the Fourth World Conference on Women, and attempts to rewrite what was carefully agreed and reflected in Beijing over 30 years ago.'"
The U.N. Commission on the Status of Women voted against a U.S. proposal to define gender solely as men and women. The resolution claimed that the Beijing Declaration defined gender this way, but a letter from the Women's Rights Caucus clarified that no specific definition was adopted in 1995. Cristal Downing noted that member states preferred leaving the term open to interpretation. Jennifer Rauch criticized the U.S. for allegedly misrepresenting facts, while Belgium and 25 other member states successfully blocked the proposal.
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