Trans EU employment rights & legal gender recognition

Trans people’s difficulty in accessing employment and occupation, as well as problems with keeping a job, is acute across Europe. Only 51% of trans people are in paid employment in comparison with 68% in the general population, found the Fundamental Rights Agency.

In the last six years TGEU’s TvT team and partners unveiled ground-breaking research on the human rights situation of trans and gender variant people worldwide.

In total, since January 2008 the murders of 1,612 trans people have been reported. 226 of these reports are from the past 12 months.

Alarming figures: Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project unveils interactive map of more than 1,500 reported murders of trans people since January 2008.

Sadly, this year there are 238 trans persons to be added to the list to be remembered, mourned, and honoured. In total, since January 2008 the murders of 1,374 trans people have been reported.

Find out the state of trans rights in Europe, including an index that provides a detailed country overview for 21 categories.

TGEU announces Trans Rights Europe Map to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia – IDAHOT 2013.

Constant rise in murder rates: Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals more than 1,100 reported murders of trans people in the last five years.

Sadly, this year there are 265 trans persons to be added to the list to be remembered, mourned and honoured as an update of the results of Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals.

Transgender Europe’s Trans Murder Monitoring project reveals 221 killings of trans people in the last 12 months.

Trans Murder Monitoring launches an interactive map for IDAHOT 2011. The new interactive map for the first time visualises a great portion of the 604 reported murders of trans people that the TMM has documented since January 2008.

Sadly, this year there are more than 160 trans persons to be added to the list, to be remembered, mourned and honoured as an update of the preliminary results of Transgender Europe’s new research project reveals.