- 14 Maj 2008, 09:47
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Ovo je zvanicno obavestenje o protekloj konferenciji
u organizaciji TGEU koja se odrzala u Berlinu od 02.-04. maja,
ovde godine..
Press Release
2nd. EuropeanTransgender Council transforms into 1st. global
conference of transgender activists
More than 200 transgender activists from 5 continents came together
from May 2nd. ? 4th. for the 2nd. European Transgender Council `Make
Human Rights Work´ at Rathaus Schöneberg (Schöneberg Town Hall)
Berlin. Participants came from 83 groups and 38 countries: in addition
to almost all western, southern and northern European countries the
list also includes - among others - Russia, USA, Peru, Japan, Namibia,
Kyrgyzstan, the Ukraine, Israel, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgian
Republic, Serbia, Iceland, Romania, Croatia, and White Russia.
Human rights issues, anti-discrimination legislation and an exchange
of experiences on an international level were the central concerns of
the Council. The first comprehensive study of the legal rights
situation and experience of health care of transgender people in
Europe (2007, Press for Change, TGEU, ILGA Europe) was presented for
the first time at the Council. The Study shows that transgender people
continue to face massive violations of their human rights in most
European states. These include for example the legal requirement that
surgery to alter primary and secondary sexual characteristics, which
of necessity also includes compulsory sterilisation, must be carried
out before a person has the legal right to change the forename in five
EU States. In 9 EU States these surgeries are preconditions for
changing the legal sex.
In the coming years, activists working under the flag of the
international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) will intensify their
existing campaign against the violation of human rights of transgender
people. To do so, TGEU will strengthen its cooperation with ILGA
Europe, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, ILGA World
(Trans Secretariat) and Amnesty International. The ?Yogyakarta
Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in
Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity´, ratified in 2006
are important instruments for this political work.
Global networks are being planned as new tools to achieve these
political aims.
The `Transgender Europe Research Network´ is to serve the purpose of
bringing together scientists and scholars whether transgender or not,
who are working on the subject of transgender into an international
network, and to continue to research the living conditions of
transgender people worldwide. A `Transgender Europe International
Media Network´ will link journalists internationally and perform
public relations work.
Despite much scientific controversy, forms of transgender continue to
be listed in the DSM IV of the American Psychological Association
(APA), just as homosexuality once was, and in the ICD-10 of the World
Health Organization (WHO) as psychological disorders. DSM and ICD are
guideline manuals used in healthcare to standardise the definitions of
what constitutes mental illness. Transgender Europe (TGEU)
emphatically refuses this pathologisation and will assist the next
reformulation of the DSM in a critical manner, when this is carried
out in 2011.
At the plenary meeting of Transgender Europe (TGEU) on 4.5. a new
Executive Board and a new Steering Committee were elected, with
representatives from Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland and Italy. The
new President of the Organisation is Stephen Whittle, PhD, Professor
of Equalities Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, President of
the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH, USA)
and Vicepresident of Press for Change (PfC, UK).
________________________________________
2.5.-27.5. The Exhibition of artworks by more than 20 international
artists currently showing at Rathaus Schöneberg remains on display
until 27th May.
u organizaciji TGEU koja se odrzala u Berlinu od 02.-04. maja,
ovde godine..
Press Release
2nd. EuropeanTransgender Council transforms into 1st. global
conference of transgender activists
More than 200 transgender activists from 5 continents came together
from May 2nd. ? 4th. for the 2nd. European Transgender Council `Make
Human Rights Work´ at Rathaus Schöneberg (Schöneberg Town Hall)
Berlin. Participants came from 83 groups and 38 countries: in addition
to almost all western, southern and northern European countries the
list also includes - among others - Russia, USA, Peru, Japan, Namibia,
Kyrgyzstan, the Ukraine, Israel, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Georgian
Republic, Serbia, Iceland, Romania, Croatia, and White Russia.
Human rights issues, anti-discrimination legislation and an exchange
of experiences on an international level were the central concerns of
the Council. The first comprehensive study of the legal rights
situation and experience of health care of transgender people in
Europe (2007, Press for Change, TGEU, ILGA Europe) was presented for
the first time at the Council. The Study shows that transgender people
continue to face massive violations of their human rights in most
European states. These include for example the legal requirement that
surgery to alter primary and secondary sexual characteristics, which
of necessity also includes compulsory sterilisation, must be carried
out before a person has the legal right to change the forename in five
EU States. In 9 EU States these surgeries are preconditions for
changing the legal sex.
In the coming years, activists working under the flag of the
international NGO Transgender Europe (TGEU) will intensify their
existing campaign against the violation of human rights of transgender
people. To do so, TGEU will strengthen its cooperation with ILGA
Europe, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, ILGA World
(Trans Secretariat) and Amnesty International. The ?Yogyakarta
Principles on the Application of International Human Rights Law in
Relation to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity´, ratified in 2006
are important instruments for this political work.
Global networks are being planned as new tools to achieve these
political aims.
The `Transgender Europe Research Network´ is to serve the purpose of
bringing together scientists and scholars whether transgender or not,
who are working on the subject of transgender into an international
network, and to continue to research the living conditions of
transgender people worldwide. A `Transgender Europe International
Media Network´ will link journalists internationally and perform
public relations work.
Despite much scientific controversy, forms of transgender continue to
be listed in the DSM IV of the American Psychological Association
(APA), just as homosexuality once was, and in the ICD-10 of the World
Health Organization (WHO) as psychological disorders. DSM and ICD are
guideline manuals used in healthcare to standardise the definitions of
what constitutes mental illness. Transgender Europe (TGEU)
emphatically refuses this pathologisation and will assist the next
reformulation of the DSM in a critical manner, when this is carried
out in 2011.
At the plenary meeting of Transgender Europe (TGEU) on 4.5. a new
Executive Board and a new Steering Committee were elected, with
representatives from Denmark, Germany, England, Ireland and Italy. The
new President of the Organisation is Stephen Whittle, PhD, Professor
of Equalities Law, Manchester Metropolitan University, President of
the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH, USA)
and Vicepresident of Press for Change (PfC, UK).
________________________________________
2.5.-27.5. The Exhibition of artworks by more than 20 international
artists currently showing at Rathaus Schöneberg remains on display
until 27th May.
