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The Czech Senate just blocked a bill that would have imposed state-mandated conversion therapy, a bathroom ban and extra legal hurdles for gender recognition.

The Romanian state must issue Arian Mirzarafie-Ahi a new birth certificate reflecting the identity already recognised in the United Kingdom, before Brexit. The ruling in favour of the trans man with dual citizenship is now final.

Today’s judgment by the Court of Justice of the EU…

TGEU warmly welcomes the decision of the Austrian Constitutional Court (E 1297/2025-11, 18 December 2025), which grants a non-binary applicant the right to have their gender marker removed from the civil registry.

TGEU publishes a new jurisprudence toolkit covering key legal gender recognition cases from 2017 to 2024.

TGEU celebrates the progress made by the Czech Ministry of Health in issuing new guidelines on legal gender recognition that finally remove the requirement for forced sterilisation.

Sweden’s new Legal Gender Recognition Act has officially come into force. The reform simplifies the legal gender recognition procedure but falls short of a full self-determination model.

In a pivotal judgment delivered today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that the Czech Republic violates the rights of trans people by requiring forced sterilisation as a legal requirement for legal gender recognition.

TGEU welcomes the landmark decision of the Polish Supreme Court on 4 March 2025, which significantly reforms the legal gender recognition (LGR) process in Poland.

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.  

Today, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) issued a judgment in the case of Deldits (C-247/23), stating that national authorities responsible for keeping public registers (such as asylum registers) should correct data on gender identity when it is inaccurately recorded.