Observatoire de la petite sirène (OPS) is a French anti-transgender organization opposed to affirmative models of care for trans and gender diverse youth.
Background
Observatoire de la petite sirène [Little Mermaid Watch] was founded in 2021 by three psychoanalysts, largely in response to the 2020 documentary Petite Fille (Little Girl), about transgender child Sasha and her family.
OPS is also known as Observatoire des discours idéologiques sur l’enfant et l’adolescent (Observatory of ideological discourses on children and adolescents).
OPS was a signatory to the 2024 anti-trans petition WHO Decides.
In 2024, their front page linked to the anti-trans web farm largely developed by anti-trans extremist Stella O’Malley of Genspect:
- Gender Health Query
- Stats for Gender
- Society for Evidence-based Gender Medicine (SEGM)
- Clinical Advisory Network on Sex and Gender (CAN-SG)
- YPOMONI (ypomoni.org)
- Gender Clinic News by Bernard Lane
People
Founders
- Céline Masson
- Caroline Eliacheff
- Anna Cognet
2024 conference
In June 2024, OPS held a conference in France titled s. The event was organized in conjunction with SEGM.
Day 1: Anthropological Changes: The Child and Ideologies
Opening by Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio
Keynote opening
- Céline Masson
- Caroline Eliacheff
- Roberto D’Angelo
- Zhenya Abbruzzese
Opening lecture : Medicine and humanism
- Didier Sicard
The identity-related causes of anthropological changes
- Leonardo Orlando
- Jean-François Braunstein
- Nathalie Heinich
- Jean-Pierre Lebrun
- Jean-Louis Renchon
Why is the child at the centre of these ideological changes?
- Karinne Gueniche
- Pascal Mallet
- Isabelle de Mecquenem
- Gérard Rabinovitch
- Pierre-Henri Tavoillot
Music break featuring Georges Perla and Jasko Ramic
Science and ideologies
- Andreas Bikfalvi
- Leonardo Orlando
- Kathleen Stock
- Jean Szlamowicz
- Pierre Valentin
When ideology takes shape
- Dominique Crestinu
- Anne-Laure Boch
- Thierry Delcourt
- Thierry Lamote
- Jean-Pierre Winter
Pubertal transidentification : ASP – Angoisse de Sexuation Pubertaire – une nouvelle proposition clinique
- Thierry Lamote
- Caroline Eliacheff
- Céline Masson
- Michel Messu
- Jean-François Solal
Day 2: Pubertal Trans Identification: What Changes Aound the World?
Opening by Céline Masson,Caroline Eliacheff, Beryl Koener
Opening lecture : Medicine caught up in ideology
- Chantal Delsol
Europe : the pioneers : what changes in 2024? From the Dutch Protocol to alerting doctors in specialist departments
- Beryl Koener
- Samuel Veissière
- David Bell
- Michael Biggs
- Riittakerttu Kaltiala
- Sven Román
- Jilles Smids
Becoming a boy : the mirage of « sex transfuges »
- Claude Habib
Europe and the countries that haven’t changed (yet): what’s the situation in 2024?
- Leonardo Orlando
- Silvia Carrasco
- José Errasti
- Christian Flavigny
- Beryl Koener
- Alexander Korte
- Jean-Pierre Lebrun
- André Leonhardt
- Marino Pérez Alvarez
French-speaking parents’ associations
- Caroline Eliacheff
- Céline Masson
- France: Ypomoni
- Canada: Réseau éducation, sexe et identité (RÉSI)
- Switzerland: Association pour une approche Mesurée des Questionnements de Genre – AMQG-AUFG
Hatred of children from the Middle Ages to the present day
- Xavier-Laurent Salvador
USA – Canada – Australia : trans identification of adolescents and the rapid onset of gender dysphoria in adolescence (ROGD Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria) Current state of play : a political battle?
- Beryl Koener
- Leonardo Orlando
- Zhenya Abbruzzese
- Roberto D’Angelo
- Stephen B. Levine
- Lisa Littman
- Samuel Veissière
- Ken Zucker
Resources
Observatoire de la petite sirène (observatoirepetitesirene.org)
Twitter (twitter.com)