Article originally appeared on thefederalist.com.
In one of his parting gifts to the United States and the world, President Joe Biden agreed to advance a new United Nations treaty that weaponizes international criminal law against opposition to transgender policy. Under its provisions, politicians who deliberately “misgender” someone or advocate for female-only private spaces would be guilty of “gender-based persecution,” a crime against humanity. In November, the General Assembly agreed to a timeline for finalizing the treaty by 2029.
The Vatican has been warning against this treaty for more than four years because it would enshrine an open definition of gender in international criminal law, effectively replacing the sound definition of gender currently in the Rome Statute.
The Rome Statute defines gender as “the two sexes, male and female, within the context of society.” This was a hard-fought definition to clarify the meaning of “gender persecution,” a new category of crime when the International Criminal …
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