I’ll quote from an article that comments on these masterpieces issues by Eurocrats: Free to love, free to be: the EU’s new LGBTIQ+ strategy (Directorate-General for Communication, 8 October 2025); LGBTIQ+ equality strategy 2026-2030.

And now, from the Telegraph: Children could pick their gender at school under EU proposal (barrier-free version):

Children could pick their own gender under new EU proposals.

Member states could be punished for challenging gender ideology under a new strategy unveiled by the European Commission.

Any age limits on gender recognition could be scrapped and therapy to check whether children really want to change their own gender outlawed by the plans.

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The new proposals are contained in the European Commission’s new “LGBTIQ+ equality strategy 2026-2030”.

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On self-ID, it criticises countries such as Britain that require a GP’s approval before a person can be allowed to identify legally as the opposite sex.

“Requirements for legal gender recognition vary significantly across member states,” it said. “While a number of member states have adopted self-identification models, others impose medical procedures, which the European Court of Human Rights has found may infringe human rights.

“The commission will facilitate exchanges of best practices among member states to support the development of legal gender recognition procedures based on self-determination that are free from age restrictions.”

The document also suggests a ban on talking therapy for children suffering from gender issues.

Critics said this would mean there would be no way for parents or professionals to check whether a child really did want to begin irreversible gender-changing procedures.

It also calls for sanctions for countries that do not comply with the “values“ set forth in the agenda.

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Maya Forstater, chief executive of sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, called Brexit a “mercy” because Britain would not have to follow the “sinister” plans.

She said: “This chilling EU-wide strategy pushes legal gender self-identification for children of any age and a ban on talking therapy for vulnerable children.

“It is a mercy that British campaigners for sex-based rights don’t have to deal with this sinister strategy and the pernicious capture of EU institutions, on top of our own challenges in the UK.

“Gender activists have entrenched their ideology in European institutions with devastating consequences for women and girls, vulnerable children, and gay and lesbian people.”

The Athena Forum is a continental version of Sex Matters, the gender-critical group which has fought against the ideological capture of public bodies by trans rights activists in the UK.

Founder Faika El-Nagashi is a former Green MP in Austria who has been targeted for her gender-critical views.

“With its new LGBTIQ+ equality strategy, the European Commission is effectively following the wish list of trans activist lobby groups in Brussels, groups that are extremely well funded by the commission itself and highly influential within EU institutions,” she said.

“It is outrageous that despite protests from women’s rights groups, lesbians and gays, parents and detransitioners, the commission blatantly centres a push for self-ID laws without age restrictions across Europe, and seeks to embed gender-identity ideology across virtually every policy area including, crucially, women’s rights.

“Perhaps most revealingly, the addition of a ‘plus’ to the title signals that the commission has fully internalised trans activist ideology. It is as if they are trying to add infinity to an already infinite scope of identities. This is not a serious policy document, but it will have very serious consequences.”

Ms El-Nagashi said trans activist concepts had been embedded in legislation, policy, data collection, education and healthcare, often without public debate or democratic accountability.

A growing number of feminists and academics are being silenced for views which do not align with the trans rights agenda.

“For years, gender identity ideology has been smuggled into European institutions through soft law, without debate, transparency or accountability,” she said.

“What happens in Brussels does not stay there. The trans ideology that first appears in strategy papers is then rolled out through funding priorities and mainstreamed into every corner of policy.

“Much of civil society has been cowed into silence, fearing defamation as ‘far Right’ and the loss of funding.”

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The commission document is not yet final and needs to be ratified by national governments.