Trans Health
Trans people who seek trans-specific healthcare – also known as gender-confirmation or gender reassignment treatment – often experience an increase in quality of life upon transitioning.
Many cannot afford trans-specific care or find competent or willing care providers. Others cannot or do not want to obtain a mandatory mental illness diagnosis, are considered too young or too old to consent to treatment, or are refused for other reasons. Also, many health insurance providers exclude coverage for trans-related healthcare or put up insurmountable barriers.
TGEU works to ensure that trans people can enjoy the highest standards of trans-specific healthcare.
To this end, we engage with European institutions and other stakeholders, such as EPATH, in addressing gaps in access to trans-specific care for trans people. We also support the development of non-stigmatising access models.
Trans people in asylum procedures might have specific healthcare needs. States have to ensure during the asylum procedure that basic healthcare needs of an asylum seeker are met. Trans specific ...
The Kennisinstituut Medisch Specialisten (Expert center on medical knowledge) in the Netherlands is currently consulting on a standard protocol for medical trans health care. The trans* reference group involved in ...
Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared the requirement of permanent infertility in order to undergo gender reassignment surgery as incompatible with human rights. Transgender Europe welcomes this ...
The findings to an official inquiry by the Swedish Government into reform potential of the gender recognition law has been published today. The report investigates conditions in access to legal ...