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For well over a decade, we’ve watched fundamental principles — clarity in law, the meaning of “woman,” the basis for sex-based rights — erode under the weight of ideological capture. The shift from sex to gender identity is not just a matter of language. It is a structural transformation, reshaping how institutions across Europe understand rights, build policy and allocate power.

Athena Forum was founded in response to this transformation.

Whether you contribute your time, resources or voice, you are part of a shared effort: defending sex-based rights, strengthening democratic values and restoring political courage in public life. Here’s how you can get involved.

Write to your MEP

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

You can make a difference by writing to your MEP today.

Read the action guide

Tell them to:

  • Ensure child safeguarding and evidence-based healthcare for all young people
  • Uphold the rights of women, children, lesbians and gays – and take legislative decisions grounded in reality
  • Defend freedom of expression and open debate on issues of sex and gender

🚨 Take action

Stop the EU’s new LGBTIQ+ Strategy from undermining women’s rights, the rights of lesbians and gays, child safeguarding and freedom of expression!

On 8 October 2025, the European Commission presented the LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-2030. This strategy proposes measures that would:

  • Promote self-ID across all member states, without age limits or safeguards
  • Seek to introduce or enforce bans on talking therapies for young people in distress about their sex or sexual orientation
  • Expand hate speech laws to include the undefined category of “gender identity”

These proposals would directly affect women’s rights, parental rights, child safeguarding and freedom of expression across Europe. They pressure all EU countries to adopt positions that have not been democratically debated or agreed.

Your Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) 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.

The letter

Use the email below as a starting point for a message you send from your own email account.

  1. Find your MEP and their contact details in the MEP directory.
  2. Copy the subject and message into a new email. Replace the details in square brackets and adapt the wording to reflect your own views.
  3. Include your name and home address so your MEP can identify you as a constituent. Review the message and the personal information you wish to share, then send it from your own email account.

Email template

To
[Your MEP’s name and email address]
From
[Your first name and last name] <[Your email address]>
Subject
Safeguarding women’s rights and democratic oversight in the EU’s LGBTIQ+ Strategy

Dear [MEP’s name],

I am writing as an EU citizen concerned about recent advances of the European Commission to implement transactivist demands into law and policy. The latest addition to this is the LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy which was presented by the EU Commission on 8 October 2025. The strategy undermines sex-based rights, removes safeguards for children and adolescents and erodes pluralism and freedom of expression.

The strategy proposes measures that would:

- Promote self-ID across all member states, without age limits or safeguards
- Seek to introduce or enforce bans on talking therapies for young people in distress about their sex or sexual orientation
- Expand hate speech laws to include the undefined category of “gender identity”

These proposals would directly affect women’s rights, parental rights, child safeguarding and freedom of expression across Europe. They pressure all EU countries to adopt positions that have not been democratically debated or agreed.

The Athena Forum - a European initiative for sex-based rights, democratic values and political courage - has highlighted that these measures point to a broad process of institutional capture, where a contested and unscientific concept of “gender identity” is treated as settled law and integrated into the EU’s policy machinery without democratic debate, evidence or impact assessment.

We urge you to make use of your right of parliamentary scrutiny and oversight by:

(1) Initiating an Own-Initiative Report (INI) on the impact of the erasure of sex from EU law, policy and data
(2) Submitting written and oral questions to the European Commission, requesting to:
- Clarify the legal basis for the ongoing replacement of sex with gender and gender identity in EU legal instruments, official documents and data
- Provide an updated impact assessment and/or ex-post evaluation of such changes on the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens, in particular of women, children, lesbians and gays
- Ensure that EC consultations and expert groups include civil society actors that represent a European voice for evidence-based policies and sex-based rights, including Athena Forum

These steps would help ensure that EU equality frameworks remain coherent and capable of protecting the rights of all citizens.

Could you confirm your position on this issue?

Thank you for your attention to this important matter.

Kind regards,
[First name] [Last name]
[First line of your home address]
[Second address line, if needed]
[Town / City]
[Country]
[Your email address]

Write to your PACE delegate

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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.

Read the action guide

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 28 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: Please vote NO on the “conversion practices” resolution on 28 January (PACE)

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Contribute your time and skills.

We are building a committed team of volunteers across Europe — from research and communications to event coordination and design. Whether you can offer a few hours a month or take on a specific project, your skills can help challenge institutional orthodoxy and build a resilient, reality-based movement. Join us in strengthening public understanding, civic resilience, and cross-border coordination.

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Bring the conversation to your community.

Events help bring visibility, clarity, and momentum to the issues we face. If you’d like to organise a talk, seminar, or community event focused on sex-based rights, we can provide guidance, resources, and speakers where possible. These events create space for open dialogue and help build the civic courage needed to challenge silence and restore democratic debate. Together, we can make these conversations part of the public landscape.

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