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Are you wondering what will happen to reproductive rights, queer people, and trans folks if Republicans win the 2024 presidential election? There’s a plan for that. It’s called Project 2025, and its revanchist vision for “saving America” includes ‘making gender sex again.’ For starters. This talk explores the centrality of gender politics for authoritarian movements through an in-depth examination of Project 2025, the 900+ page plan designed by a broad coalition of right-wing organizations to ensure the consolidation of American authoritarianism and Christian nationalism in United States. Through an examination of what it seeks to accomplish and how, Wilkinson analyzes the centrality of gendered hierarchy to authoritarian movements like those behind Project 2025 and how authoritarian movements around the world are strategically deploying anti-gender rhetoric to  build power by threatening to obliterate the very concept of “gender” itself.