TransGender Europe 2008

Brief introduction

First: What is transgender?

A gender diversity, including those people who have a gender identity which is different to the gender assigned at birth and those people who wish to portray their gender identity in a different way to the gender assigned at birth.

It includes those people who feel they have to, or prefer or choose to, whether by clothing, accessories, cosmetics or body modification, present themselves differently to the expectations of the gender role assigned to them at birth.

Short history TransGender Europe council:

After the First Transgender Council in Vienna in 2005, the attendees of the Council, representing a total of over 100 European and National Trans Support Groups, voted for the following demands to be made of the European Community and the nations of the Community:

Aims TransGender Europe council
(shortest version )

1. The Right to a Free choice of given name.
2. The Right to change one's legally registered gender/sex in all documents, to the gender/sex of the preferred gender role.
3. The Inclusion of Trans people in all Anti discrimination juridical case law, legislative programme or administrative policies in all European Union national treaties and legislation
4. The creation of a European wide programme of Protective Services opposed to Transphobic or other 'gender variant' related hate crimes.
5. The development of social, legal and administrative respect for the family lives of Trans people and their loved ones.
6. The Right to a Free choice of medical practitioners for all Trans people, regardless of national borders, and health care policies.
7. The Right to Political asylum for all those Trans people from Third Party nations, who are or will be prosecuted on grounds of their gender variance or sexual behaviour if returned to their own, or another, third party nation state.
8. The provision of European and National funding of sufficient support and education organisations on matters of concern to Trans people. 9. That European and Nation states include Trans, gender variant and queer concerns to be included in their Youth Welfare Programmes and legislation, including the development of Special Protections for trans and other gender variant children and adolescents, and the funding of specific trans-youth welfare, support and care projects.

publication, courtesy TGEU council 2008