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Institutional and policy-driven lesbian erasure in Europe: our input to the UN Independent Expert on SOGI
Read our input to the thematic report on violence and discrimination experienced by “LBQ” women Read more →
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Brussels Signal: Council of Europe wants to make questioning gender identity illegal
Report on the Council of Europe vote on “conversion practices”, highlighting Athena Forum’s campaign urging delegates to vote no. Read more →
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Briefing on conversion therapy bans: A deceptive label
Extending conversion therapy bans to gender identity and gender expression causes lasting harm under the guise of human rights protection. Read more →
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Campaign: No child is born in the wrong body – remove gender identity from the CoE conversion therapy resolution
Urgent: Tell your MPs in the Council of Europe to reject gender identity in conversion therapy bans. Read more →
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Kurier [German]: Noone is in the wrong body.
Interview and podcast on setting boundaries to transactivist demands, protecting women’s spaces and raising the minimum age for hormonal and medical… Read more →
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Der Standard [German]: Former Green Party member El-Nagashi wants to fight the EU “gender lobby” with a think tank
Austrian national newspaper Der Standard reports on the launch of Athena Forum and its critique of EU gender identity lobbying. Read more →
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Podcast: EU equality strategy promotes children’s right to define gender
Podcast on gender identity policy in Europe, the role of bureaucratic elites and why many women and lesbians go along with… Read more →
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Proposed law to allow men in women’s prisons sparks alarm in Germany
Germany’s most populous state is planning a major change to prison policy – with serious consequences for women’s safety and rights. Read more →
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Doorbraak [Dutch]: Young people are not allowed to be sterilised. So why are they allowed to change sex?
Interview with Flemish magazine for political and cultural debate. Read more →
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EMMA [German]: What role do the EU and NGOs play?
Interview in German feminist magazine EMMA on the role of EU-funded NGOs in shaping transactivist policy and why this has remained… Read more →
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Request for clarification: European Commission statement concerning sex self-determination
We have asked the European Commission to clarify the legal basis for public statements asserting a right to self-determine one’s sex. Read more →
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De Morgen [Dutch]: Being a woman. Reader response from Athena
Belgian progressive daily De Morgen publishes our reader response on the trans debate. Read more →
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