Enquête LGBT européenne
An awsome and brilliant 2012 for all trans and gender variant people on the globe and their friends and allies!
Let 2012 be the year where we do away with transphobic hate and biasis and where we all can enjoy the basic human rights and freedoms that cis-gendered people enjoy without thinking twice. Weiterlesen
Question parlementaire au Luxembourg
... Mes services ne sont pas au courant d’une étude réalisée au sujet de personnes hermaphrodites. Ils n’ont par ailleurs pas participé à une telle étude. Par conséquent, je ne saurais disposer d’informations à ce sujet. Weiterlesen
The litle boy who started a sex change aged EIGHT
At age seven, after threatening genital mutilation on himself, psychiatrists diagnosed Thomas with gender identity disorder. By age eight, he began transitioning. Weiterlesen
Boy who returned to school as a girl speaks out
With a passion for pink, Livvy dressed in a heart print jumper and sparkly jewellery for her interview, sitting with her mum and dad to bravely talk about coming to terms with gender dysphoria. Weiterlesen
European Parliament asks WHO to depathologize transgender identities
The resolution endorses the adoption of the UNHRC resolution A/HRC/17/19 and lends its support to the work undertaken by the OHCHR so far as well as concrete assistance in organizing a panel at the 19th UN UNHCR session to enable an open dialogue amongst states on related human rights issues. The European parliament calls on the Commission and the WHO – a UN body – to withdraw gender identity disorders from the list of mental and behavioral disorders while ensuring a non-pathologizing re-coding in the 11th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Weiterlesen
European Parliament joined the United Nations’ call for safeguarding the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the world
Welcoming the adoption in June of the first-ever resolution on ‘Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity’ at the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Parliament confirmed its concern regarding “human rights violations and widespread discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, both in the European Union and [abroad]”. Weiterlesen
Meet Josie: No secret she’s transgender
When asked about her necklace - a silver triangle on a black cord - she beams. "This is a transgender symbol," she says of the circle that joins the symbols for male and female with a third symbol that combines the first two. She whispers something in her mother's ear. "You decide what you want to say," Venessia Romero, 42, tells her daughter. "I haven't had my surgery yet," Josie says as she goes into the kitchen to help her mom make cinnamon rolls. Weiterlesen
EU LGBT Umfrage
