Romania’s refusal to recognise trans man’s identity violates fundamental human rights, says top EU legal advisor

On May 7, the Advocate General Court of Justice of the European Union said that Romania's refusal to recognise changes of forename and legal gender marker acquired in another Member State is contrary to the rights of EU citizens.

The Czech Constitutional Court ruled against the requirement of sterilisation for legal gender change, calling it a severe violation of human rights.

United Nations Trans Advocacy Week (UN TAW) is a collective project by non-governmental organisations, offering trans activists a platform to make their voices heard on a global scale and in international human rights spaces.

We've teamed up with Access Now to organise an Activist Safety and Digital Wellbeing webinar. The webinar aims to empower attendees with tools and knowledge to enhance their safety and digital wellbeing and reduce risks faced by trans communities.

In a historic vote today, the Swedish Parliament have simplified the process for legal gender recognition. The updated law means that trans people will be able to change their gender markers on official documents with a certificate from a doctor.

TGEU expresses profound concern over the EU Pact on Asylum and Migration. While we acknowledge efforts towards reform, the Pact fails to adequately address the needs of vulnerable asylum seekers, including trans and gender-diverse people fleeing persecution.

Today, the German Parliament has adopted a legal gender recognition law based on self-determination. The new law ends four decades of patronising trans people and declaring trans people as mentally ill.

From talking to our members, it’s clear that proposal writing and fundraising are some of the biggest obstacles to accessing funding for our trans communities. This is why we are excited to hold a series of fundraising webinars alongside our partner FRIDA Young Feminist Fund.

We, the undersigned equality and anti-discrimination organisations, call on the European Union’s leaders and European Institutions to ensure equality, anti-racism, and fundamental rights are a priority during the next legislative mandate. 

Join us for the ninth TGEU European and Central Asian Trans Council from 21-24 November 2024, at Salini Resort Hotel in Malta. Every two years, we bring together 200 trans activists from across Europe and Central Asia to set the agenda for trans politics and celebrate trans communities. 

One of the two post-Soviet countries where "sodomy" is criminalised, Turkmenistan is the most closed-off authoritarian and repressive country in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

TGEU welcomes the European Parliament’s resolution on Central Asia published on January 17, 2024. The resolution mentions the need to revise the EU Central Asia Strategy adopted in 2019.