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Trans-led non-profit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people. Over 200 member organisations across 50 countries in Europe & Central Asia 🏳️‍⚧️ https://linktr.ee/tgeuorg

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · Apr 23

🏳️‍⚧️ TGEU is a trans-led nonprofit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people in Europe and Central Asia.

🔥 We have over 200 members in 50+ countries!

🤝🏽 We focus on three core areas: advocacy, community, and research

🔗 Learn more: tgeu.org
🤝🏽 Support us: tgeu.org/support-our-...

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 6h

📸🎥 We’re welcoming all contributions in the following formats. Choose whatever is easiest for you:
- Existing video or archive photo from previous events
- Quote/short text (optional: alongside a photo of yourself)
- Short video

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 6h

💬 Tell us how TGEU influenced the work in your region and created (cultural, political or legislative) change, a personal story or a memory of an experience with TGEU throughout the years (e.g. Trans Council, Trans Advocacy Week, TGEU Training programmes).

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 6h

📢 This November 2025, we’re celebrating 20 years of international #transrights #organising and #solidarity with our communities in Europe and Central Asia. To mark this milestone, we invite you to join our anniversary campaign: share your story, and help show the power of the #transmovement.

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 6h

🎉 20th anniversary of TGEU #campaign - send us your videos or written text (plus photo) by 21 October 2025, 18:00 CEST.

💌 See our website for additional information and how to submit: tgeu.org/call-for-you...

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 1d

4/ We call on the European Commission to ensure the Anti-Poverty Strategy:

✅ Prioritises intersectional data & funding

✅ Ensures meaningful participation of trans-led and sx worker-led organisations

✅ Advocates for the full decriminalisation of sx work

✅ Mandates trans-inclusive enforcement

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 1d

3/ A rights-based, intersectional Anti-Poverty Strategy must tackle systemic inequality, deconstruct stigma, and ensure meaningful participation for those most affected. A headline target isn't enough. The strategy must dismantle the structural barriers that perpetuate poverty for all.

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 1d

2/ Our new joint statement highlights that trans people and sx workers remain among those most affected by poverty, discrimination and exclusion. Yet their realities are too often ignored in policymaking.

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 1d

🧵👇🏽 Ahead of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 3 European networks, representing more than +335 organisations, are joining forces to demand the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy work for everyone, especially those left at the margins.

Read the statement: tgeu.org/advancing-tr...

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 5d

2/2 🏳️‍⚧️ What’s next
We will prepare a detailed analysis of the Strategy and continue to monitor its implementation. The Commission has a duty to turn commitments into concrete protections, and we will keep holding them accountable.

🏳️‍⚧️ Read the statement: tgeu.org/trans-people...

#TransRights

Trans people must not be left behind: TGEU highlights critical gaps in the new EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026-30 - TGEU - Trans Europe and Central Asia

TGEU welcomes the publication of the LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 and the European Commission’s renewed pledge to advance the rights of all LGBTIQ+ people while embedding an intersectional pers...

tgeu.org

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 1/2 🏳️‍⚧️ The EU’s new LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 pledges to protect LGBTIQ+ rights—but it fails to fully protect trans people.

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans people are on the frontlines of attacks on democracy. The EU must act to ensure equality & protect trans people and our rights across Europe.

#TransRights

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ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 6d

The European Commission’s new LGBTIQ Equality Strategy (2026–2030) falls short. At a time when LGBTI rights are under growing attack across Europe, the EU’s response must match the urgency of the moment.

EU publishes new LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy, but is it fit for purpose? | ILGA-Europe

The second EU LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy for 2026-2030 was published today, but as Europe’s leading LGBTI organisation welcomes it, the question remains: is this strategy anywhere close to responding t...

www.ilga-europe.org

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

6/ With gratitude and solidarity,
Equality Australia | ILGA Oceania | @ilgaworld.bsky.social | TGEU – Trans Europe and Central Asia | Global Interfaith Network for People of All Sexes, Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities and Expressions

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

5/ 🙏🏾 Together, we will share prayers, reflections, music, and memories to celebrate Ymania, whose vision for a more just and loving world touched so many lives across her path.

🕯️ You’re welcome to bring a candle to light or something meaningful to you as we join in community across distances.

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

4/ 💜 This gathering will bring together voices from many faith and spiritual traditions to acknowledge her journey, as well as the work she did to elevate the human rights of trans people and LGBTI communities across the Pacific and the world.

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

3/ 🌍 Date & Time: Saturday 11 October 2025

Memorial session in English only: 8am CEST

Memorial session in English with Spanish interpretation:
6 pm CEST

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

2/ Please follow the links above to register to either of the sessions: tgeu.org/tuisina-yman...

Once your participation is confirmed, you will receive all access details.

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

🧵 Dear friends and community,
We invite you to come together for an online interfaith memorial service celebrating the life of beloved activist and friend Tuisina Ymania Brown.

There will be two separate gatherings to allow for colleagues, friends, allies and family in different time zones to join.

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 7d

#Consultancy Open Call:

The Association for the Prevention of #Torture (APT) is developing a guidance document on promising practices to protect the rights of #LGBTI persons deprived of liberty.

TGEU is part of the advisory group at APT.

Apply here: www.apt.ch/consultancy-...

Consultancy: Developing a guidance document on promising practices to protect the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons deprived of liberty | APT

www.apt.ch

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

9/ 📖 Read the report, check out the data, and share it with your community to raise awareness for the lived experience of intersex people in Europe: fra.europa.eu/en/publicati...

#IntersexAwareness #IntersexRights #FRA #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

8/ 💡 Overall, the results highlight the need to adopt an intersectional approach in laws and policies to better protect the fundamental rights of intersex people.

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

7/ Especially those with gender non-conforming identities, living under precarious socioeconomic conditions and with further marginalised identities are overproportionately affected.

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

6/ ⚠️🇪🇺With insights from 1,920 intersex respondents across 30 European countries, this report exposes the greater risks of human rights violations, exclusion and victimisation faced by intersex people.

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

5/ 🔹 More than half of the intersex respondents (53 %) contemplated suicide the year before the survey, compared to 37% of all survey respondents

🔹 Intersex respondents are the survey group that experienced the highest increase of violent victimisation (34%) compared to 22% in the 2019 survey

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

4/ 🔹More than half (57%) of intersex respondents said they or their parents weren’t asked for informed consent before surgery or hormone treatment to change their sex characteristics

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TGEU | Trans Europe and Central Asia @tgeuorg.bsky.social · 8d

3/ Here are the key findings:
🔹 Every seventh intersex respondent (15 %) has been physically or sexually attacked in the 12 months before the survey, compared to 5 % of all survey respondents

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