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The Critic: The Austrian left-winger taking on Europe’s orthodoxies
The Critic profiles Athena’s director Faika El-Nagashi, tracing her journey from Green Party insider to outspoken advocate for sex-based rights. Read more →
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Statement in response to Council of Europe Commissioner’s letter on UK ruling
The Commissioner’s remarks risk undermining women’s rights and judicial independence in the UK. Read more →
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Policy Brief: The EU LGBTIQ+ Strategy
The EU’s new LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 places gender identity and self-ID at the centre of EU equality policy. Read more →
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The Times: Children free to change gender at any age under EU proposal
EU plans to allow legal sex change for children draw sharp criticism, including from Athena’s director. Read more →
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The Telegraph: Children could pick their gender at school under EU proposal
The Telegraph reports on the EU’s proposed LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy and on Athena Forum’s work. Read more →
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The European Conservative: Transactivist groups are changing the EU from the inside, report warns
Athena Forum challenges the EU’s shift from sex to gender identity in new policy report. Read more →
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Time to respond
In the EU and Council of Europe, policies are being rewritten to obscure sex as a legal and material reality. Read more →
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Athena
A European initiative for sex-based rights, democratic values and political courage. Read more →
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Article [German]: Affirmation at all costs: Parents in Austria break their silence
Read how in Austria an institutional system of affirmation sidelines parents and pushes teenagers toward social, legal, and medical transition. Read more →
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Article [German]: No place left for women
Read how new hate speech and self-ID laws erase the material reality of sex and leave no space for women’s rights. Read more →









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