The transnational anti-gender movement often has a strong connection to conservative religious organisations. However, even if the anti-gender movement is easy to recognise in Sweden, it is impossible for it to propagate significant opposition to gender mainstreaming and gender studies by using the Church as a reference due to white Swedish people’s established and neo-colonial image of Sweden as exceptional, secular, modern, and a gender equal and tolerant nation. The aim of this article is to analyse how a transnational anti-gender discourse transforms and produces fear in a Swedish context. In focus is the editorial writer for Svenska Dagbladet, one of Sweden’s most influential newspapers, Ivar Arpi and his critical articles and expressions in social media on gender studies and gender mainstreaming. The material shows that instead of connecting to religion in order to dismiss gender studies, gender studies is understood as the religion and conspiracy of our time, governing the state and its citizens. Drawing on Sara Ahmed, I argue that it is possible to follow how words and discourses act in affective ways and how gender studies, gender ideology and gender mainstreaming become a single body that inspires fear.

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当性别研究成为一种威胁性的宗教时

跨国反性别运动通常与保守的宗教组织有着密切的联系。然而，即使反性别运动在瑞典很容易被认出，它也不可能以教会为参照来宣扬对性别主流化和性别研究的强烈反对，因为瑞典白人已经确立了新殖民主义的形象。瑞典是一个特殊的、世俗的、现代的、性别平等和宽容的国家。本文的目的是分析跨国反性别话语如何在瑞典语境中转变和产生恐惧。焦点是瑞典最具影响力的报纸之一《瑞典日报》的社论作家 Ivar Arpi 及其在社交媒体上关于性别研究和性别主流化的批评文章和表达。材料表明，性别研究不是为了摒弃性别研究而与宗教联系在一起，而是被理解为我们这个时代的宗教和阴谋，统治着国家及其公民。借鉴萨拉艾哈迈德，我认为有可能遵循语言和话语如何以情感方式起作用，以及性别研究、性别意识形态和性别主流化如何成为激发恐惧的单一主体。