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Podcast: WDI Feminist Question Time
An analysis of three recent developments in the EU and Council of Europe, and what they reveal about policymaking and scrutiny… Read more →
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Off the record: our new webinar for subscribers
Unpacking gender identity politics in Europe for those who want to understand what’s happening. Read more →
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Exxpress [German]: EU pushes through trans agenda in empty chamber – Austrian People’s Party abstains
Coverage of the adoption of the Council of Europe resolution on “conversion practices” and Athena Forum’s critique. Read more →
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Podcast: The Umbrella Hour
Interview on defending sex-based rights in Europe, and the personal costs of speaking out. Read more →
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Subjekt [Norwegian]: ‘Gender identity’ is granted legal protection as fact. It should instead be protected under freedom of religion or belief.
Norwegian magazine Subjekt publishes guest commentary by Athena expert Anne Kalvig arguing that “gender identity” as legal concept undermines legal principles. Read more →
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Prime News [Greek]: Council of Europe: Call for a pan-European ban on conversion practices related to gender identity
Greek article on the Council of Europe’s call for a pan-European ban on “conversion practices”. Read more →
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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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