Your voice matters: write to your PACE delegate!

Activists have been lobbying the Council of Europe for decades to advance their demands. It’s time that the delegates also hear from ordinary citizens — people who care about reality, fairness and women’s and children’s rights.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the Council of Europe’s deliberative body, composed of parliamentarians from all 46 member states — including from your country. It adopts resolutions and recommendations that shape human rights and democratic standards across Europe.

PACE is made up of 307 voting members, appointed from national parliaments across 46 Council of Europe member states, plus another 307 substitutes. Members align with five political groups:

Unified European Left (UEL)
Socialists, Democrats and Greens (SOC)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
European People’s Party (EPP/CD)
European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates (ECPA)
There are also dozens of non-aligned members.

(While the numbers fluctuate due to substitutions and reassignments, these groups shape committee compositions and influence how resolutions are developed and voted on.)

You can make a difference by writing to your country’s MPs who serve as PACE delegates today.

🚨 Take action

Write to your PACE delegates to clarify misconceptions about conversion therapy bans and urge them to vote NO on the upcoming resolution to criminalise non-affirmative care.

In December 2025, the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the PACE unanimously adopted a draft resolution calling for a Europe-wide ban on “conversion practices” — aimed at changing, repressing or suppressing a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

The resolution was tabled by Kate Osborne, a UK Labour MP and member of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group.

The framing of the resolution intentionally conflates sexual orientation with gender identity and gender expression. They are completely different, and arguably incompatible, concepts. Gender identity and gender expression are highly contested ideological beliefs that deny biological reality and claim that children can be born in the wrong body.
The resolution calls for criminal sanctions, national legislation, monitoring mechanisms and coordination with civil society organisations to enforce this framework — effectively criminalising mental‑health professionals, educators, parents and social workers who do not affirm a child’s self-declared trans identity.
It proposes mandatory training and public awareness campaigns across a wide range of institutions — including healthcare services, social work, education, religious institutions, law enforcement, the judiciary and prosecutors — embedding this belief system into state-funded services, professional standards and school curricula.

Read our comprehensive briefing on the transactivist push to extend “conversion therapy” bans to gender identity and gender expression here. This ideological overreach must be removed.

Ahead of the vote on 29 January 2026, MPs in the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) need to hear from you.

🖊️ How to write

Be polite, factual and reasoned.
Use your own words. Tell them why this matters to you — as a parent, teacher, social worker, health professional, public servant, researcher, student, employee or citizen.
You can use our template below as a starting point. You may edit it and add your own thoughts to make it stronger.

🗂️ Who to write to

You can write to the head of your national delegation to PACE, using our form below.
You can write to the chair of a political group within PACE, addressing members across national delegations, using our form below.
You can write directly to individual members of PACE, focusing on those most relevant to your concern. Their contact details are available via their national parliament websites, as all members are delegated national MPs.

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📩 The letter

Subject: No child is born in the wrong body – remove gender identity from the conversion therapy resolution

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