Legal actions
Strategic Litigation
TGEU seeks to advance the rights of trans people by the means of supporting strategic court cases and legal actions.
TGEU is submitting third party interventions to court cases that are important for clarifying and advancing human rights of trans people on the European level.
Trans Legal Net
TGEU hosts the first European network of practising lawyers representing trans clients. Trans Legal Net is a cross-border professional exchange platform. It aims at improving litigation strategies for pending or prospective cases and thus in better legal protection for trans people. The network enables real-time advise and enhances professional exchange across borders. The network meets annually for an in person exchange and case clinic.
If you are a lawyer interested in the Trans Legal Net, please write to Richard Köhler.
In a judgment delivered on May 12, 2015, Identoba and Others v. Georgia, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) clarified that all trans people are protected against discrimination on ...
TGEU are pleased to invite you to its second legal practitioners’ seminar on June 18 – 19, 2015, in Zagreb, Croatia. Practitioners from across Europe will come together to share ...
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 ...
TGEU seeks to advance the rights of trans people by the means of supporting strategic court cases and legal actions.
TGEU hosts the first European network of practising lawyers representing trans clients. Trans Legal Net is a cross-border professional exchange platform. It aims at improving litigation strategies for pending or ...
local activists and TGEU at French Senate France: Gender Recognition Act underway TGEU was invited to a hearing of a French Senatorial working group drafting Legal Gender Recognition Act ...