Topic: forced sterilisation

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 European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will announce its final verdict in the case of a trans man in Turkey who could not get the court permission needed for ...

Press Statement For immediate release Transgender Europe Calls for a Stop to the Nightmare of Legal Gender Recognition in 34 Countries in Europe Berlin, 23 February 2015 Today, Transgender Europe ...

Read here the decision from the German Federal Court from 11 January 2011 striking down the sterilisation requirement in legal gender recognition. Case 1 BvR 3295/07 Press Release by the ...

The Administrative Court of Appeal in Stockholm has in a verdict from 19 Dec 2012 found the requirement of sterilization in legal gender recognition as unlawful and violating the European ...

European Social Charter Committee prompts member states over sterilisation-requirement   The European Social Charter (ESC) guarantees a number of important social and work-related rights. In its last national reporting cycle ...