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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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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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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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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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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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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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