EGGÖ — Austrian parents against medicalisation
EGGÖ (Eltern und Großeltern Gender Österreich) is an Austrian association of parents and grandparents that takes a critical position on affirmative gender care for minors and on self-identification in policy around women's spaces and sport.
Profile
EGGÖ represents Austrian parents and grandparents who see the rapid medicalisation of gender incongruence in children and young people as a serious care and rights problem. The association points to international reviews — the British Cass Review, the Swedish SBU, the Finnish COHERE — and argues for a comparable, evidence-based course for Austria.
Positions
- Puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones in minors require quality evidence that systematic reviews show to be absent.
- Self-identification as a legal criterion undermines sex-based rights of women and girls.
- Women's categories in sport must remain tied to biological sex, not to felt identity.
- Parents must be fully involved in decisions about their minor children — informed consent, no social transition behind their backs.
Articles in this hub
IOC restores women's category in elite sport — analysis
The IOC restricts the women's category to biological women via an SRY gene test. EGGÖ interprets the breakthrough that will apply from LA 2028.
Related international voices
EGGÖ is not alone. Comparable parent groups and critical associations are active in Italy (Generazione D) and in the Spanish-language domain (MeMoMa). Together they form a European network that questions affirmative gender care.