Join our webinar: From Directive to practice – transposing the EU Pay Transparency and Equality Bodies Directives

This webinar will delve into the EU’s recent legal measures on gender equality and anti-discrimination, including the 2023 Pay Transparency Directive and the 2024 Directives on equality bodies, and discuss what these frameworks mean for trans communities and how they can be effectively implemented at the national level to combat discrimination and promote inclusion.

On 16 October, 56 European NGOs have written to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law, Michael McGrath, sharing their grave concerns over the recent changes to Slovakia's constitution.

On this International Day of Action for Trans Depathologisation, we join global movements demanding the full withdrawal of all classifications that treat trans and gender diverse identities as mental disorders.

We call on the European Commission to ensure that its first-ever Anti-Poverty Strategy addresses the realities of those most at risk of exclusion, including trans people and sex workers. 

We strongly condemn the constitutional amendment passed by the Slovak Parliament on Friday, 26 September, which restricts legal gender recognition to a binary framework of ‘male’ and ‘female’ only.

On 10 July 2025, eight equality organisations sent letters to the European Commission and to business leaders calling on European companies to resist pushback against diversity and inclusion in employment.

We’re excited to invite you to an online screening of MGRM’s documentary “The Distance We Call Home”, followed by a live discussion with the co-directors Mehk and bobb attard, and cinematographer Nina Musumeci.

The UN Human Rights Council once again reminds all States of their obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill the rights of LGBTI and gender diverse people.

Together with 12 civil society organisations, we wrote a Joint Letter to the European Commission to raise concerns regarding the future of civil society in the EU and to share our outlook for the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF).

On the occasion of the banned Budapest LGBTI Pride, TGEU – Trans Europe and Central Asia stands in solidarity with all trans and gender diverse people in Hungary, whose fundamental rights are under unprecedented attack.

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union held a hearing in Case C-43/24 Shipov. This hearing is a crucial step in this case, which challenges Bulgaria’s current ban on legal gender recognition.  

TGEU's Trans Rights Index and Map 2025 reveals an unprecedented reversal: for the first time in its 13-year history, setbacks in human rights of trans people across Europe and Central Asia now clearly outweigh progress.