Is there a "paradigm" in European policies related to sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual characteristics?

In recent years, at the European level, there has been a proliferation of public policies related to sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual characteristics. These policies fall sometime within the scope of the fight against discriminations, sometime within the scope of gender equality. Such policies and actions have provided a framework for the implemention at the national level of equality and anti-discriminatory policies of various kinds. It is, on the one hand, to respond to the demands and claims of LGBTQI+ movements pressuring institutions and parties, and on the other to locally translate a process of policy change. It is undoubtedly problematic to comprehensively define an agenda in terms of policies related. to LGBTQI+ issues that would be applied or applicable undifferentiatedly across different contexts. Each context presents specificities and historical, social, and political configurations that define, in a different way each time, themes or areas of intervention. However, it is possible to observe dynamics of circulation, translation, and importation of models of LGBTQI+ policies and of a paradigm of LGBTQI+ policies that defines at the same time the categories of intervention, and the content of these policies and actions. The hypothesis that this paper will seek to explore concerns the possibility that these interventions have produced a specific public policy "paradigm", or, at least, the goal of defining such a "paradigm" of public policies related to issues concerning sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual characteristics? Is there a "paradigm" in European anti-discrimination and equality policies related to sexual orientation, gender identity and sexual characteristics? Or, in other words, is there a SOGIESC paradigm, to consider a category developed in the context of LGBTQI+ migration documents and actions? The paper will propose a critical frame analysis based on an extensive collect of anti-discrimination and equality policies, actions and documents addressing SOGIESC issues, and will also aim at tracking the intersected trajectories of LGBTQI+ movements’ claims and collective actions, and of anti-discrimination and equality politics and policies changes. The paper will also consider the counter-political effects that these policy changes have produced, particularly from the point of view of anti-gender mobilizations that are one of the main obstacles to the advancement of SOGIESC policy changes and LGBTQI+ rights. It is, eventually, to study the production of a SOGIESC paradigm at the European level as a first step toward broader research on the effects of the circulation, importation, and translation of such policies and actions, in a comparative perspective.