Transgender Europe
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| Abbreviation | TGEU |
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| Formation | February 2, 2005 |
| Legal status | NGO |
| Purpose | to support or work for the rights of transgender/transsexual/gender variant people |
| Headquarters | Amiralsgatan 88A, 214 37 Malmö, Sweden |
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Region served
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Europe |
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Official language
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English |
| Website | tgeu.org |
Transgender Europe (TGEU) is a network of different organizations of transgender/transsexual/gender variant and other like-minded people to combat discrimination and support trans people rights. It was founded in 2005 in Vienna during the 1st European Transgender Council as "European Transgender Network" and it is currently a registered NGO as "Transgender Europe".[1]
Since 2009 together in collaboration with the online magazine "Liminalis", they run the project "Trans Murder Monitoring" (TMM) that records the many people that every year around the world are killed as result of transphobia.[2][3]
Cooperations and alliances
- TGEU is a member of ILGA
- Trans Rights Conference “Putting Transgender on the European Agenda” (jointly with ILGA-Europe)
- Trans Secretariat of ILGA World
- International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia – IDAHO-Campaign 2009
- STP 2012 – Trans Depathologization Campaign 2009 against pathologization of transsexualism
- TGEU are also related with Global Action for Trans Equality and cooperate with Transgender Network Netherland which is referred to by the *Yogyakarta Principles in Action.
