Athens police forcefully tests and outs persons living with HIV The Greek Transgender Association informed us that sex workers living with HIV are facing prosecution. The police with the ...
Athens: Trans Sex Workers Under Threat
Creating Change
TGEU aims to create change at the European level to improve the situation of trans people at the local level. TGEU represents trans people politically and publicly and advocates for their human rights.
TGEU has long-standing experience in engaging and awareness raising with European institutions. Thus, we provide information to and engage with European and international institutions, such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, and the OSCE.
Our advocacy work has contributed to achieving significant trans-inclusive developments at the Council of Europe (Recommendations of the Committee Ministers on Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 2010(5); Commissioner for Human Rights’ work on trans issues) and the European Union (see our overview of trans-relevant EU law) and its EU agencies (EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s LGBTI research, including its 2014 Being Trans in the EU Report and EIGE’s expert forum). TGEU also advocates for the protection of the human rights of trans and gender-variant people through the usage of the EU external-action policies.
These are very powerful tools and mechanisms that can benefit trans people. TGEU has been contributing to these processes with written submissions, presentations, and interventions on the experiences and demands of trans people and their communities.
To help clarify and establish human rights for trans people, we support strategic court cases and engage in selective legal action. To this end, we make use of third-party interventions (amicus curiae) and collective complaints. With Trans Legal Net, we have also created the first European network of legal professionals representing trans clients in court.
TGEU works in solidarity with other organisations and movements, such as ILGA-Europe and OII Europe. TGEU is a proud member of Social Platform and participates actively in the FRP – Fundamental Rights Platform.
Through this work, TGEU aims to contribute to a Europe where every person can live openly, according to their gender identity and without interference, enjoy their human rights, and share full equality in all spheres of life.
TGEU Statement on Social Inclusion through Sustainable Transport Public space and usage of public transport is for many trans persons in Europe a dreadful experience. Transgender Europe shows how ...
photo: Mirjam Logonder Do trans and public transport go together? Around 40 public transport users and operators from across Europe will meet in Coimbra, Portugal in March ...
Joint contribution from ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe on measures for improving the recognition of prescriptions issued in another EU member state The contribution to an EU consultation highlights a ...
TGEU and ILGA-Europe send joint letter to Swedish Prime Minister Reinfeldt Transgender Europe and ILGA-Europe have issued today a joint letter to the Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. The European ...
Your input needed! Consultation on cross-border prescriptions in the European Union For a current EU consultation, we are looking for experiences with prescriptions issued in another EU member state. ...
A letter to Turkish authorities Mr. Sadullah Ergin Ministry of Justice Address: 06659 Kizilay, Ankara, Turkey Fax: +90 312 419 33 70 E‐Mail: sadullahergin@adalet.gov.tr, iydb@adalet.gov.tr November 2, 2011 ...
Stop proposed ban on gender reassignment in Lithuania! say members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe The written declaration of October 5th 2011 (Doc. 12753) speaks ...
First openly transgender Member of Parliament elected On October 10th, we have learned that Anna Grodzka, president of TGEU member organization Trans-Fuzja, has become the first openly transgender woman to ...
Commissioner for Human Rights speaks out against gender and sexuality based violence in Turkey 25/08/2011 – Hürriyet Daily News / Turkey source During my mandate as Commissioner for Human ...
Thomas Hammarberg’s new online statement touches various important trans issues Transgender Europe welcomes the Commissioner’s statement and finds it importantly specific on some of the subjects concerning transgender people, especially ...
Global LGBTI activists speak up at EU Parliament “On 30 June 2011, the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights held a hearing on LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex) ...