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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 [Cicero | German]: When being a woman becomes a matter of feelings, we can no longer advocate for women’s rights.
Op-ed by Athena Forum Director Faika El-Nagashi on leaving the Greens, facing political attacks and defamation, and how gender identity debates… Read more →
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![Article [Cicero | German]: Affirmation at all costs: Parents in Austria break their silence](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==)
Article [Cicero | 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 [Der Pragmaticus | German]: No place left for women](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==)
Article [Der Pragmaticus | 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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Article [spiked]: Why can’t the UN define what a woman is?
Read how the United Nations is undermining women’s rights by refusing to defend sex as a legal and material category. Read more →
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![Article [Compact]: How Europe lost the plot on women‘s rights](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==)
Article [Compact]: How Europe lost the plot on women‘s rights
Read how the Council of Europe’s new Gender Equality Strategy undermines sex-based rights in the name of “progress.” Read more →
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Article [Genspect]: The curious case of non-binary people in EU data
Read how the EU’s reporting category of “non-binary people” undermines sex-based statistics and women’s rights. Read more →





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