Transgender Europe
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Transgender Europe is a network of different organizations of transgender
Transgender
Transgender is a general term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles....

/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".

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
Transphobia
Transphobia is a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexualism and transsexual or transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender...

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Cooperations and alliances

  • TGEU is a member of ILGA
    International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
    The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association is an international organization bringing together more than 750 LGBTI groups from around the world. It continues to be active in campaigning for LGBT rights on the international human rights and civil rights scene and...


  • Trans Rights Conference “Putting Transgender on the European Agenda” (jointly with ILGA-Europe
    ILGA-Europe
    ILGA-Europe is the European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association.ILGA-Europe is a non-governmental umbrella organisation which represents its members, principally organisations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons, at the European level.Its...

    )
  • Trans Secretariat of ILGA World
  • International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia – IDAHO-Campaign 2009
  • STP 2012 – Trans Depathologization Campaign 2009 against pathologization of transsexualism
    Transsexualism
    Transsexualism is an individual's identification with a gender inconsistent or not culturally associated with their biological sex. Simply put, it defines a person whose biological birth sex conflicts with their psychological gender...

  • TGEU are also related with Global Action for Trans Equality
    Global Action for Trans Equality
    Global Action for Trans* Equality is an organisation and think tank for transsexuals' or transgender's dignity and rights founded in 2009...

     and cooperate with Transgender Network Netherland which is referred to by the *Yogyakarta Principles in Action
    Yogyakarta Principles in Action
    Yogyakarta Principles in Action is a movement for activists and human rights defenders to promote human rights, especially those of LGBTI around the Yogyakarta Principles, supported by ARC International, Hivos and Dreilinden Gesellschaft für gemeinnütziges Privatkapitel, Germany.They published the...

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