Empowering trans futures: TGEU announces three organisations set to receive 30,000 euros of funding

We're thrilled to announce that we've chosen three exceptional member organisations for the EU Subgranting Cycle 2024, each receiving €30,000 in funding. These projects, made possible by the European Commission's Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV), aim to drive meaningful change in the lives of trans people across Europe. Selected to receive the funding, Trans Autonomija, FLIRT and Trans Mreža Balkan are making strides towards a more inclusive future.

On 3 October, Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili signed legislation that radically violates the rights of LGBTI people in the country. Download our briefing to learn more

Together with many organisations and individuals committed to gender equality, human rights, and social justice, welcome the latest report from UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, which emphasises the right of all people to participate in sports, including trans, gender diverse, and intersex people.

ACCEPT, TGEU and ILGA-Europe welcome today’s decision of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU)  in case C-4/23 Mirin, strengthening the rights of trans people. The Court said that the refusal of an EU Member State to recognise changes of forename and gender acquired in another Member State is contrary to the rights of EU citizens.

In light of the recent unveiling of the new European Commission, European and national equality civil society networks and organisations wish to express their shock and dismay over the downgrading of the Equality portfolio compared to the previous mandate.

The Parliament of Georgia voted in the third and final reading for laws aimed against LGBTI people by restricting their rights to non-discrimination, health care and education, freedom of speech and peaceful assembly, and the right to security.

Today, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union said that Hungarian immigration authorities must correct a trans person's gender marker in national registries when requested.

TGEU is deeply concerned about the recent anti-LGBTI propaganda law passed by the Bulgarian Parliament, which bans references to LGBTI identities and people in schools and educational institutions.

The human rights situation in Uzbekistan is getting worse, especially for LGBTI people. There are still laws against "sodomy", human rights initiatives are restricted and the mistreatment and torture of gay, bisexual, and trans people continues without consequences.

In a judgment published last week, the Italian Constitutional Court found that non-binary peoples' rights are protected by the Italian Constitution. 

On 25 July, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled in M.A. and Others v. France that there has been no violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. 

Together with 140 civil society organisations across the EU, we have written to EU leaders. We urge them to make equality and non-discrimination top priorities in the EU’s five-year work plan.