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 exercise: examples of discrimination under EU law
Goods & Services
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
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)
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 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 Toolkit on Legal Gender Recognition (includes an overview of EU case law)