Gender Reassignment Surgery Requirement equals Torture, says United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Slowly, it seems things are speeding up for trans people at the United Nations. The most recent ...
Another Victory for Trans Rights at the UN
Health & Depathologisation
Trans people need accessible and quality healthcare, just like everybody else. However, many trans people do not see a doctor because they fear discrimination, lack health insurance or economic means, and/or do not know where to turn to. Some trans people might wish to access trans-specific healthcare, including hormonal, surgical, psychological, or other medical treatment.
TGEU works towards ensuring that trans people can enjoy the highest standard of trans-specific healthcare and have equal access to general healthcare.
Being trans is not an illness, yet some medical guidelines and professionals still consider it to be a mental disorder. TGEU therefore works for the depathologisation of trans people, to ensure that trans identities are no longer considered mental health conditions.
To achieve these aims, we build on our own and our members’ capacity to engage with European institutions and other stakeholders to address gaps in trans people’s access to healthcare. We also contribute actively to having trans identities removed from the mental health section of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).
Equal access to healthcare is also closely related to our work on non-discrimination.
Designated EU Health Commissioner commits to trans depathologization Designated Commissioner for Health and Consumer Rights, Tonio Borg, promised on November 17th in a letter to European Parliamentarians to work ...
Swedish prime minister Reinfeldt is not hands-on when it comes to ending human rights abuses. Press release – 12 January 2012 Representatives of the governing Swedish parties have agreed not ...
Experts develop alternative models for trans* health classifications THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Invited by GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality, a group of more than 20 experts from ...
Help change the upcoming ICD-11! Global Action for Trans* Equality needs your input! Greetings from GATE – Global Action for Trans* Equality! As you may or may not know, the ...
Health care not a gentleman’s issue? source: océan leroy No surgeries available. Malta continues to breach Human Rights of transgender people Health Minister says there are no surgery facilities ...
Happy news! Switzerland drops 2 years of forced therapy before surgery! The Swiss Federal Supreme Court just accepted that an earlier decision by the European Court of Human ...
17/02/2010 The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released on Feb 10th 2010 a draft version of the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM) .[1] TGEU [2] observes with great concern ...
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has prepared and released a statement urging the de-psychopathologisation of gender variance worldwide. May 26, 2010 The World Professional Association for Transgender Health ...
17/02/2010 The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released on Feb 10th 2010 a draft version of the Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM) .[1] TGEU [2] observes with great concern ...
Transgender Europe and ILGA-Europe published in May 2008 the first comprehensive report on the experiences of health care by transgender people in European Union. This report is a result of ...
Transgender Europe (TGEU) Announcement Update: More than 160 groups worldwide oppose Trans Pathologization Two weeks before the heyday of this year’s “Stop Trans Pathologization: ...