EU legislation with reference to gender reassignment, gender identity and gender expression

 

Overview

TGEU’s Activist’s Guide on Trans People’s Rights under EU Law (a technical overview of EU law for activists, ideal for use in advocacy)

TGEU’s “Know your Rights!” Guide for Trans People in the EU (an accessible overview of EU law, ideal to raise awareness about trans people’s rights)

TGEU PowerPoint presentation on EU legislation with reference to gender reassignment, gender identity and gender expression

TGEU exercise: examples of discrimination under EU law

 

Goods & Services

Full legal text
Directive 2004/113/EC implementing the principle of equal treatment between men and women in the access to and supply of goods and services (full text)

EU Commission summary
EU Commission: Gender equality and Goods & Services

EU Commission Report on the application of the Goods & Services Directive (includes clarification regarding discrimination based on gender identity)

 

Employment & Social Security

Full legal text
“Gender Recast Directive”: Directive 2006/54/EC on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and equal treatment of men and women in matters of employment and occupation (recast)

EU Commission summary
EU Commission: Gender Recast Directive

Implementation guidelines
ILGA Europe Guidelines on the Gender Recast Directive (Employment & Social Security)

 

Asylum

Full legal texts
“Qualification Directive”: Directive 2011/95/EU on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection (recast) (full text)

“Common Procedures Directive”: Directive 2013/32/EU on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection (recast) (full text)

EU Commission summary
EU Commission: Asylum Qualification Directive

EU Commission: Asylum Procedures Directive

Implementation guidelines & Good practice
ILGA Europe Guidelines on the Asylum Qualification Directive

ILGA Europe Guidelines on the Recast Asylum Procedure Directives and of the Recast Reception Conditions Directive

ILGA Europe publication on “Good practices related to LGBTI asylum applicants in Europe”

 

Victim’s Rights

Full legal text
Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime (full text)

EU Commission summary
EU Commission: Rights of Victims

Implementation guidelines
ILGA Europe Guidelines on the Victim’s Rights Directive

EU Commission DG Justice Guidance on Implementation of the Victim’s Rights Directive

 

Health care

EQUINET – Dynamic Interpretation: European Anti-Discrimination Law in Practive V (includes a case study of discrimination in trans*-related health care)

 

Legal Gender Recognition

TGEU’s “The Trans Crossroads – Trans People’s EU Employment Rights and National Gender Recognition Laws” Report

TGEU’s Toolkit on Legal Gender Recognition (includes an overview of EU case law)