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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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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 [German]: Affirmation at all costs: Parents in Austria break their silence](data:image/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==)
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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Article: 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: 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: 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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Article: The EU is refusing to change course on gender
Read how Brussels continues to push gender identity ideology, even as resistance grows across Europe. Read more →
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Article: One strategy to rule them all
Read how the EU turned a non-binding equality strategy into a tool for embedding gender identity ideology across Europe and beyond. Read more →
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Article [German]: When fighting hate speech comes at the cost of free speech
Read how EU laws claiming to protect minorities risk curbing freedom of expression and democratic debate for everyone. Read more →



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