TGEU — Transgender Europe

Transgender Europe (TGEU) is a European non-profit organization for the rights and well-being of transgender people in Europe and Central Asia.

What is TGEU

Transgender Europe (TGEU) is a European non-profit organization for the rights and well-being of transgender people in Europe and Central Asia. According to its own website, it represents more than two hundred member organizations in over fifty countries (source). Its office is in Berlin (source).

Trans Rights Map

Every year, together with ILGA-Europe, TGEU publishes a Trans Rights Index & Map. It shows the legal situation of transgender people in 54 countries: 49 in Europe and 5 in Central Asia. Points are awarded on 32 indicators in six categories: legal gender recognition (see changing gender registration), asylum, hate speech and hate crime, protection against discrimination, health and family. According to TGEU, the scores are based solely on the text of the law and do not take into account the social situation or how laws are applied. The update appears every year around the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (source; explanation by TGEU).

Trans Murder Monitoring

Since 2009, TGEU, together with partner organizations and activists around the world, has carried out the Trans Murder Monitoring. It collects and analyzes reported murders of transgender and gender-diverse people. The annual update appears shortly before Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20 (source).

Organization and funding

TGEU was founded in 2005 under the name Transgender Europe e.V. Since 2018, the organization has also worked in Central Asia. Its full name is now TGEU, Trans Europe and Central Asia (source). On its own website, under the heading Funders, are the logos of the Netherlands, the Council of Europe and the European Union (source). TGEU also says it advocates for the rights of transgender people at the EU and the UN (source).

Caveats regarding the murder figures

The 2025 update counted 281 murders between October 1, 2024 and September 30, 2025, compared with 350 a year earlier. Of these, 68 percent took place in Latin America and the Caribbean; in Europe, five cases were reported. Since 2009, 5,322 murders have been recorded (source). TGEU itself writes that the real numbers are probably much higher, because murders are often misreported or not reported at all, for example through misgendering, stigma or limited media coverage. According to TGEU, the decrease compared with 2024 does not mean it has become safer. According to TGEU, 90 percent of the reported victims were trans women or transfeminine people and 88 percent were Black or brown; sex workers form the largest group among known occupations, at 34 percent (same source). The global totals are therefore determined mainly by regions other than Europe.

Position on care for minors

On December 18, 2024, TGEU, together with ILGA-Europe, the IPPF European Network, IGLYO and The Kite Trust, signed a joint statement against the British government's decision to ban the sale and supply of puberty blockers through private prescriptions to people under 18 indefinitely (source; the government's decision). The statement calls access to this care necessary, life-saving and evidence-based, and calls the studies behind the decision methodologically questionable. The University of York, which reviewed the evidence for the Cass Review, found among 50 studies on puberty suppression 1 of high, 25 of moderate and 24 of low quality, and limited or conflicting evidence on the effect on gender dysphoria and mental health (source). On April 4, 2023, TGEU, together with the German association BVT, also published a statement expressing disappointment over two decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (O.H. v. Germany and A.H. v. Germany) on the birth certificates of children of transgender parents; the Court held that no violation of human rights had been found (source). See also ILGA-Europe, the Cass Review, parenthood after transition and the European Court and transgender rights.

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