This profile highlights Athena Forum Director Faika El-Nagashi’s presentation at Bratislava Hanus Days and her work as a feminist critic of gender identity ideology. It focuses on Athena Forum’s efforts to oppose EU policies promoting legal gender self-identification, with particular attention to the European Commission’s proposed LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-2030 and its support for self-identification laws. The article also explores the personal and professional consequences El-Nagashi has faced since breaking with her former Green Party colleagues and founding Athena Forum to advocate for women’s rights, freedom of expression and evidence-based policy.
Read the full feature (in Slovak) here.

