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Influence Across Europe

Advocacy groups, policy documents etc.

I hope this page offers some insight into how the American anti-LGBT influence network has reached Western Europe with relatively little public attention. SEGM will always bring up that they have gay members, even though the organization itself was created in the late 2010s to serve a Christian conservative legal strategy in U.S. courts, a redirection of funds that were previously used rying to fight marriage euality.

Note that Michelle Cretella from the emails in the previous links and head of ACPeds, a group is active, but often covert in their faith-based promotion of "sexual purity", fighting abortion access and gay rights, has written something for both the Bulgaria and Poland A comprehensive overview of these organizations in Europe would be much broader, and things like Cretella at the International Congress o Families in Madrid. This page is limited to references involving Finland, which happen to intersect with these networks in many cases.

Note: Most of the links below lead to PDF documents, some of them hundreds of pages long.
A separate page covering the international events and activity by Kaltiala and others in planned, in the meantime feel free to reach out.

Austria

Belgium

Bulgaria

A "scientific report" submitted to Bulgaria's Constitutional Court cites Finland, the Cass Review, and Nordic restrictions as arguments against gender-affirming care. Earlier, Bulgaria constitutionally prohibited legal gender recognition, a development that received relatively little international attention. Finland is presented as an example of a country that has supposedly "retreated" from affirmative care.

Czech Republic

Finnish scientific credibility is brought into the context of the Czech culture war. The material repeats the claim associated with Kaltiala that "four out of five children grow out of gender dysphoria." A recent review in a respected publication examined the sources behind this claim and described them as so weak that drawing health-policy conclusions from them requires either scientific illiteracy or motivated reasoning.

Denmark

Danish health authorities were asked whether they would conduct a similar study to one supposedly carried out in Finland, where four out of five children were found to grow out of gender dysphoria. This is misinformation. No such study has been conducted in Finland. Kaltiala has merely repeated, as if it were certain, conclusions that were seriously challenged in this systematic literature review.

France

A report by the Les Républicains group in the French Senate constructs a narrative around an international network and the supposed dangers of "trans-identification." The report features, among others, Riittakerttu Kaltiala, Kenneth Zucker, and Lisa Littman. This is directly connected to the SEGM meeting in Paris, to which politically active figures had been invited, including several from across the Atlantic. Observatoire la Petite Sirène (OPS), a group of Lacanian psychoanalysts and essayists, organized a joint event with SEGM while presenting itself as promoting evidence-based science; one participant described transgender identity as a communist mass delusion. The Paris program included a section titled "Situation in 2024: Countries that have not changed their approach (yet)." Once again, Kaltiala and Finland were presented within this framework as pioneers.

Germany

Bundestag hearing documents use a source network very similar to those found in the French and Italian materials. Kaltiala, Littman, Zucker, SEGM, the Cass Review, and detransition narratives appear in the same documents.

Italy

Various organizations promoting "family values" have had their materials included in hearings before the Italian Parliament. At least one of these groups has collaborated with SEGM's Lisa Marchiano. The same networks have also translated materials from Genspect and the exploratory therapy movement into Italian. These materials include advice such as cutting ties with supportive people in a young person's life if "the child says they are trans". Parliamentary hearing documents in Italy reference Kaltiala, the Cass Review, SEGM, detransition narratives, and policy changes in Finland and other Nordic countries.

Netherlands

Parliamentary documents raise questions related to concerns expressed by Riittakerttu Kaltiala, including claims about detransition. Particularly noteworthy is that the discussion references an event in Amsterdam where Kaltiala spoke and became the target of significant protest activity. The events described sound remarkably similar to those Kaltiala later discussed in an article for the Finnish Medical Journal, although she appeared to imply that they had occurred in Finland. In reality, antifascist groups have not organized protests against her in Finland. Furthermore, the article's estimate of only a couple dozen activists appears to be something of an underestimate.

Poland

The ultraconservative Ordo Iuris uses Finland as an argument against "trans ideology." Its materials cite PALKO, the Cass Review, and SEGM in ways that often simplify or distort the content of Finnish research and clinical practice.

Michelle Cretella, president of the American ACPeds organization, writes the foreword to the standards of a Christian medical association. The standards cite Kaltiala's essay in an anti-woke publication as a scientific authority.

Portugal

The language used in Portuguese parliamentary materials is more technocratic, but the overall argument structure closely resembles that found in materials from other countries. The Cass Review, PALKO, Sweden, and Finland are presented as evidence that Europe is moving away from an affirmative model of care. Finland is cited as an example of a country where the "harms of transgender treatments" were supposedly discovered, despite Finnish follow-up studies generally reporting positive outcomes.

Spain

Switzerland

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