The Hate Review

Country Group: Moderate dual entrenchment

Key indicators in 2025: Contamination 2.88 / 4  ·  Impact 2.33 / 4

Over the past decades, the anti-gender movement in Slovakia has followed a trajectory of sustained escalation, moving from moral and religious campaigns in the 1990s through mass civic mobilisation in the 2010s to the full integration of anti-gender politics into governing ideology by 2025. Across this period, a densely interconnected ecosystem of religious institutions and civil society organisations, supported by political parties and conservative media, has developed. What distinguishes the Slovak case is the speed and completeness of this mainstreaming: narratives that began in church pastoral letters moved within a decade into the electoral strategies of social democratic and nationalist parties, and by 2025 commanded a cross-party constitutional supermajority. Slovakia currently stands as one of the starkest examples in the European Union of anti-gender politics successfully transitioning from civic movement to state policy.