The Hate Review

Key indicators in 2025: Contamination 1.00 / 4  ·  Impact 0.78 / 4

Anti-gender activity in Iceland remains weak, fragmented and largely confined to a small number of actors without significant public support. Its dominant vehicle is parliamentary — the Centre Party of former Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson — while the civil society dimension has only recently begun to take shape through organisations such as LGB Samtökin and the newly formed Drenglyndi parent group. Mobilisation has taken the form of isolated individual interventions rather than coordinated campaigns or mass movements, with LGBTIQ+ education in schools emerging as the consistent target. Despite the strength of its legal framework and the breadth of public consensus on the rights of LGBTIQ+ people, Iceland shows that no country is immune to the anti-gender dynamics reshaping debate across Europe.