Trans Rights Index & Map 2026: Movements and courts hold the line despite political threats and inaction

TGEU' Trans Rights Index and Map 2026 reveals a year of change on paper across Europe and Central Asia but not sustained political progress. While more developments have been recorded than in recent years, many of these hard-won shifts are driven by activists and courts rather than proactive government action. 

The recently announced PATHWAYS clinical trial protocol on puberty blockers (also known as puberty suppressing hormones) for young trans people in the UK represents a deeply troubling escalation in the erosion of young trans people’s rights and mental and physical health. 

In a pivotal step, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the forthcoming EU Gender Equality Strategy 2026–2030, increasing pressure on the European Commission to strengthen protections for trans people within this framework.

In Italy a draft law proposes to redesign access to trans-specific healthcare for trans people under the age of 18.

TGEU celebrates the progress made by the Czech Ministry of Health in issuing new guidelines on legal gender recognition that finally remove the requirement for forced sterilisation.

We’re excited to invite you to an online screening of MGRM’s documentary “The Distance We Call Home”, followed by a live discussion with the co-directors Mehk and bobb attard, and cinematographer Nina Musumeci.

Sweden’s new Legal Gender Recognition Act has officially come into force. The reform simplifies the legal gender recognition procedure but falls short of a full self-determination model.

In a pivotal judgment delivered today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that the Czech Republic violates the rights of trans people by requiring forced sterilisation as a legal requirement for legal gender recognition.

On 5 June 2025, Advocate General Ćapeta delivered her opinion in the case Commission v. Hungary (C-769/22), finding that Hungary’s so-called “Child-Protection law” violates multiple provisions of EU law.

TGEU's Trans Rights Index and Map 2025 reveals an unprecedented reversal: for the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people across Europe and Central Asia now clearly outweigh progress.

World Athletics has announced a new stakeholder consultation while it reviews eligibility criteria for the Female Category at the elite level. However, the consultation process is deeply biased and is designed to increase restrictions on trans and intersex athletes, excluding them from competing.

TGEU — Trans Europe and Central Asia — calls on European leaders to take immediate action in response to a worsening global health and human rights crisis disproportionately impacting trans people and other marginalised communities.