ALT Text: On Wednesday, the full agenda for a conference in Athens, organized by the Society for Evidence in Gender Medicine (SEGM)-a Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) -designated anti-LGBTQ hate group-was made public. The group has faced criticism for advocating against conversion therapy bans for transgender people and for sharing funding sources with the Heritage Foundation, the organization behind Project 2025, which aims to declare transgender people obscene.

ALT Text: Among the NHS officials and associates speaking at the conference are Riittakerttu Kaltiala, an advisor to the Cass Review who has worked with Governor Ron DeSantis' appointees in Florida to ban transgender care in the state; Trilyby (Tilly) Langton, an author of the systematic reviews used to justify the Cass Review in the United Kingdom; i

ALT Text: Michael Absoud, deputy head of the upcoming United Kingdom puberty blocker trial; Anastassis Spiliadis, an early proponent of modern trans conversion therapy methods and a trainer for NHS children's gender services; and Julie Alderson, who is responsible for establishing a new Southern NHS Children's Gender Service in the United Kingdom. Notably, none of these officials spoke at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference, held the week prior.