🎧 For over 15 years, transactivist organisations have used the Council of Europe as an entry point for institutional and policy capture - largely unnoticed and undisturbed.

This ends now. We’ve set up Athena Forum to expose their behind-closed-doors lobbying and to intervene for sex-based rights, evidence-based policy and political courage.

Listen to Athena Forum co-founder Kurt Krickler, a pioneer of the European lesbian and gay rights movement, on the long-term strategies of ILGA-Europe and Co. to push through institutional capture. ⬇️ 🧵 In 2008, a small group of transactivist organisations (including ILGA-Europe and Press for Change) were invited by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights to shape a new framework around "gender identity." Their demands, including legal self-ID, were quickly elevated into official CoE guidance. By 2010, these lobbying efforts bore fruit: the Council’s Recommendation CM/Rec(2010)5 called on states to scrap medical safeguards and fast-track legal sex changes, embedding gender identity into institutional expectations.

🎙️ Listen to Kurt Krickler explain the tactics of the gender identity lobby in Europe in this podcast with @RoisinMichaux:
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🚨 We have to act now. British MPs are actively shaping European transactivist policy through the Council of Europe, while many other delegates lack a clear understanding of these issues and have never sat through a substantive debate on them. UK Labour MP Kate Osborne tabled a resolution on conversion therapy bans with gender identity and gender expression, and it passed committee unanimously.

The Council of Europe’s Parliament will vote on this resolution on 29 January. It calls for criminal sanctions on 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, and mandatory sex-education on gender identity. It is pure ideological overreach.

Delegates will vote on this in two weeks. They need to hear from you. Join our campaign and write to them today. ⬇️
athena-forum.eu/take-action/yo… “Conversion practices” bans are a deceptive label. Delegates to the CoE are your national MPs. Many are unaware of the consequences. Tell them why this resolution does lasting harm under the guise of human rights. We’ve prepared a briefing you can share:
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