About Athena

Bettina Reiter is a Vienna based psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, looking for more evidence and neutrality in all matters of “gender care”.

Esohe Aghatise is a lawyer and cross-cultural mediator with more than 25 years of experience supporting victims of trafficking in Europe. She is the Founder and Executive Director of IROKO Charity, active in Nigeria and Italy, and has served in leadership roles across numerous women’s rights initiatives. She works on trafficking, migration, violence against women, trauma impacts and domestic violence, and has held roles with the United Nations, OSCE/ODIHR, the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE), and UNICRI.

Zsófi Balogh is a feminist podcaster and editor at Partizán, an independent media platform in Hungary known for its in-depth political journalism and social commentary. She has worked extensively on violence against women (VAW) and was previously active in several of Hungary’s leading women’s rights NGOs.

Magdalena Grzyb is a Polish lawyer and criminologist specialising in violence against women and criminal policy. She earned her Ph.D. in 2015 through a joint programme between Jagiellonian University (Poland) and Bordeaux University (France). Her most recent project, Female Homicide Victimization, was the first study on femicide ever conducted in Poland. From 2013 to 2017, she was a member of COST Action IS1206 “Femicide across Europe,” a European Cooperation in Science and Technology initiative that created a pan-European network to improve definitions, strengthen prevention policies and connect researchers with policymakers. She has published widely in Polish, English and Spanish on domestic violence, femicide, criminal policy and most recently, the clashes between gender identity and women’s rights.

Alexander Korte has been Senior Physician at the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich since 2010. He has authored numerous publications, including on the effects of internet pornography on psychosexual development (2018), and has served as a medical expert for the German Bundestag and the German Ethics Council. His expertise combines empirical sexological, developmental psychological, psychoanalytical and cultural studies perspectives. He is a board member of the German Society for Sexual Medicine and Sexual Psychology and co-editor of the journal Sexologie.

Stéphane Mitchell is a Swiss screenwriter with 30 years of experience in theatre, cinema and television. Alongside her creative work, she has consistently championed women’s rights through her writing and activism. She is the co-founder of SWAN (Swiss Women’s Audiovisual Network) and AMQG-AUFG, a Swiss association supporting parents of children who declare a “transgender” identity. A committed advocate of participatory democracy, she believes in the importance of civic engagement and political involvement at the local level.

Jacqueline Vejlstrup is a midwife and outspoken advocate for women’s sex-based rights. Her work has focused on defending female autonomy in reproductive healthcare and exposing how law and policy can undermine women’s fundamental rights. In 2016, she submitted a shadow report to CEDAW on Sweden’s failure to protect women’s choice in childbirth, and she has since written widely on reproductive rights, abortion law and the impact of postmodern identity politics. She is affiliated with Kvinderettigheder, a cross-political group working to protect women’s rights, free speech and safety, with particular focus on how gender identity ideology undermines sex-based protections, children’s healthcare and democratic freedoms.

Anne Kalvig is a historian of religions and former full professor at the University of Stavanger, Norway. She has long campaigned for the rights of women and girls and was previously a politician on the left. She published the first monograph in Norway on the impact of gender identity ideology on women and society in 2023. In 2025, she published an anthology featuring nine women and their analyses of gender identity ideology’s influence on contemporary society. Today, she works independently outside academia, political parties and traditional women’s organisations, which she sees as having abandoned sex-based rights. She is a member of Women’s Declaration International (WDI) Norway.

Linda Hart is Chairwoman of Naisten rintama ry (Women’s Front Finland). She is a research and development professional specializing in comprehensive security and social and health care. She holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Helsinki and the title of Docent at the University of Turku. Her research spans socio-legal studies, sociology of gender, and human rights, with her doctoral thesis analyzing sex, gender, and family recognition in European Court of Human Rights case law. Recently, she has published in Finnish on the politicisation of gender identity and on medical interventions for young people experiencing gender distress.

Nuala Ahern is a former Irish Green Party member of the European Parliament (Greens/EFA1994-2004). During her mandate Nuala was a Vice President of the European Parliament Petition’s Committee and a Vice President of the Committee for Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy, and a member of the Culture Committee. She became involved in Green politics not only through her interest in ecology but also due to the party’s early commitment to active citizenship and openness to diverse perspectives. After stepping down from political life, Nuala was the co-founder and first Chairperson of Green Foundation Ireland. In recent years, she has voiced concern about the narrowing of democratic debate within European institutions, especially regarding sex-based rights and the role of EU-funded bodies in enforcing gender identity frameworks through funding criteria — a practice she sees as undermining democratic integrity and the proper use of funds, particularly in accession countries.

Silvia Carrasco Pons is a former Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she founded and led a research group on migration, education and social inequality, her primary areas of research. Alongside her academic work, she is a prominent feminist campaigner and President of Feministes de Catalunya, which published an influential report on the Catalan health department’s gender transition services based on official data. She co-founded DoFemCo, a feminist teachers’ organisation, and is the lead author of La Coeducación Secuestrada (Coeducation Hijacked), a critique of the incorporation of gender identity into education policy in Spain. She is also a regular commentator in Spanish media. In 2024, she faced protests at her workplace over her views on the impact of Spain’s self-ID law on women’s rights, and stood as a candidate for the feminist party Partido Feministas al Congreso in the European elections.

Dana Vitálošová is a prominent feminist activist who began publicly criticising gender identity ideology in 2019, which made her a persona non grata in Slovak activist circles. She subsequently worked as a contributing editor for a US-based gender-critical online magazine before returning her focus to Slovakia in 2023 to pursue journalism. Writing for the conservative outlet Marker, she has covered topics including gender identity, child safeguarding and progressive radicalism. Her reporting has contributed to public and political debate in Slovakia and Brussels about the use of public funding towards LGBT projects involving the sexualization of children and young people.

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We are currently expanding our Expert Network.

We are currently expanding our Expert Network.