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Pushing conversion therapy bans across Europe: Transactivist demands enabled by political indifference
The recent PACE debate on conversion therapy offers a case study in how international institutions manufacture “European consensus” on deeply contested… Read more →
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Brussels Signal: Council of Europe expands definition of ‘conversion practices’ to include questioning of gender identity
Brussels Signal reports on a Council of Europe resolution that treats questioning a child’s gender identity as a “conversion practice”. Read more →
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Podcast: Reports of conversion therapy are “completely exaggerated”
Interview with Athena Forum co-founder Kurt Krickler, a pioneer of the European lesbian and gay rights movement, about how activists use… Read more →
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Expose the deception: Stop using lesbians and gays for ideological agendas
Statements opposing misleading conversion practices bans Read more →
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Spiked: How the Council of Europe could foist trans ideology on us all
Article on the upcoming Council of Europ vote on “conversion practices”, the UK Labour push to advance transactivist policies at the… Read more →
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Dagens Nyheter [Swedish]: Conflict within the Tidö coalition – and in the EU
Report on Sweden’s legal sex change law, EU self-ID plans and growing resistance to gender identity policies across Europe. Read more →
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Exxpress [German]: Former LGBT activist speaks out: Criticism is systematically suppressed
In-depth interview with Athena Forum co-founder Kurt Krickler on EU funding for transactivist groups and the political capture it enables. Read more →
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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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