Where public figures stand on Gender & Family Policy
18 people have a position on record here, ordered from the most liberal to the most conservative overall rating. The position is an editorial reading; the statements it rests on are on each profile.
Former Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs; Greens co-leader
Champions feminist foreign policy via the 3Rs and measurable women's-rights tracking.
Champions feminist foreign policy via the 3Rs and measurable women's-rights tracking.
observed 2023-03-01 – 2023-06-15
Novelist and essayist
Warn against theocratic gender control and Christian-nationalist family politics
She ties Handmaid's Tale's growing plausibility to real rollback risks and calls white Christian nationalism a contradiction of universalist Christianity.
observed 2025-11-08 – 2025-12-07
Content creator; founder, Léna Éditions
Feminism without compromise; reject body shaming
Léna publicly identifies as feminist and shares pain of physique critiques on social networks.
observed 2025-09-20 – 2025-09-20
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Gender-balanced federal cabinet as baseline
Trudeau treated equal numbers of men and women in cabinet as a non-negotiable modern standard, summarised as 'Because it's 2015.'
observed 2015-11-04 – 2015-11-04
Former Prime Minister; Renaissance party figure
Defend women's freedom and republican equality
Non-regression pledge covers marriage equality and women's rights against far-right rollback.
observed 2025-09-21 – 2025-09-21
Adviser, Centrist Reform Alliance; Prime Minister 2011-2012
Let married couples keep their own surnames - Japan is the last country on earth that forbids it.
Noda made selective separate surnames a signature legislative demand of his leadership, pushing a joint opposition bill and arguing it could pass the lower house because Komeito backed it too. He has also indicated support for same-sex marriage in media questionnaires, placing him well left of the LDP's traditional-family wing on family law.
observed 2025-04-30 – 2025-04-30
Member, House of Representatives; Prime Minister 2024-2025
Let married couples keep separate surnames -- a position he holds, and a fight he did not win.
Ishiba is one of the few senior LDP figures on record for a selective separate-surname system and treats same-sex marriage as a constitutional human-rights question rather than a left-right one, but within four months of taking office he retreated to a 'compromise' of expanding legal recognition of maiden names under pressure from the party's conservative wing. Supporters call that the only arithmetic available to a minority prime minister; critics call it the clearest case of Ishiba trading his own convictions for party peace.
observed 2025-01-28 – 2025-01-28
Minister of Defense
Japan's family law and workplace norms are the problem, not the traditions they supposedly protect.
Koizumi has been one of the few LDP heavyweights to campaign for a selective separate-surname system, and made himself the test case for male parental leave by taking it as a sitting minister. Both positions put him at odds with the party's traditionalist wing and with the prime minister he now serves.
observed 2020-01-15 – 2024-09-06
Leader of the Reform Party; National Assembly member for Hwaseong B
Merge or abolish the Gender Equality ministry
Continuity with 2022 PPP-era gender politics: shrink or shutter MOGEF and reassign functions.
observed 2025-03-18 – 2025-03-18
Former First Lady of South Korea (wife of Yoon Suk Yeol)
Promised to "live faithfully as a wife" and stay quiet if Yoon won; instead remained a high-profile, scandal-prone first lady
fueling both feminist critique and conservative claims of misogynistic double standards.
observed 2021-12-26 – 2022-09-01
Prime Minister of Japan
Equal opportunity for women, but no change to the traditional family and none at all to the male imperial line.
Japan's first woman prime minister opposes selective separate surnames for married couples (offering wider use of maiden names as aliases instead) and same-sex marriage, and in July 2026 legislated male paternal-line succession into the Imperial House Law. She had campaigned on bringing women's representation in top posts to a level 'not particularly lower than Nordic countries' and then named two women to a 19-member cabinet.
observed 2026-07-17 – 2026-07-17
Former President of South Korea; serving life sentence for insurrection
Abolish the gender-equality ministry
Campaign and president-elect remarks treat MOGEF as historically finished and reject gender quotas.
observed 2022-01-07 – 2022-03-20
Leader, Sanseito
Gender equality policy was a mistake; pay women to have children young.
Kamiya frames Japan's birthrate as the country's central crisis and blames decades of pushing young women into work, proposing monthly cash payments per child instead. He opposes same-sex marriage, selective separate surnames and female imperial succession, and defended rather than retracted his claim that older women cannot bear children.
observed 2025-07-03 – 2025-07-03
Psychologist and author
Defend contested gender/identity speech against regulatory punishment
The College case and Online Harms critique sit inside Peterson's longer conflict with compelled speech and institutional gender orthodoxy; he presents re-education and hate-speech expansion as tools to silence that dissent.
observed 2024-08-09 – 2024-12-06
Former Daegu mayor; retired conservative heavyweight
Explicit "familism": reject antidiscrimination law, treat LGBTQ+ issues and radical feminism as social problems to be…
Explicit "familism": reject antidiscrimination law, treat LGBTQ+ issues and radical feminism as social problems to be solved, restore family-centered community against political correctness.
observed 2025-04-18 – 2025-04-18
Leader of the Conservative Party
Meritocracy over identity quotas
Explicit rejection of identity-based policy in favour of ability.
observed 2025-10-08 – 2025-10-08
Founder, Reconquête; media polemicist
End binationality to force assimilation
Frames dual citizenship as obstacle to French identity and assimilation.
observed 2026-05-19 – 2026-05-19
President, Identité-Libertés; MEP
Fight woke agenda and Islamification of Europe
Links cultural identity, religion and gender politics in anti-woke European campaign.
observed 2024-05-31 – 2024-05-31
