Transgender Europe (TGEU) Announcement & Documentation:

More than 100 groups worldwide oppose Trans Pathologization

Five weeks before the heyday of this year’s "Stop Trans
Pathologization: Goal 2012" campaign already 4 international Networks
and 109 trans groups and allies from 30 countries in Africa, Asia,
Europe and North and South America have joined the campaign of the
Trans Depathologization Network.

On October 17^th the heyday of this year’s campaign demonstrations will
take place in 28 cities in 17 countries in Europe and North and South
America (Date of information: 09.09.2009).

Transgender Europe (TGEU), which is supporting the campaign and
calling upon its member organizations and other European trans
organizations as well as our allies in other world regions to join the
campaign and organise actions in their cities or countries, documents
the campaign and its supporters on the TGEU website (http://www.tgeu.org/node/75) in English.

The Steering Committee of TGEU has adopted three additional demands in
relation to the campaign’s principal demand:

“The Removal of Gender Identity Disorder from the DSM and ICD.”

These additional demands are:

* The creation of an alternative non-pathologizing category in the ICD
11, recognizing that our gender identities are not mental health
disorders while still enabling hormonal and surgical medical
assistance to be provided for those trans-people who seek such
assistance.

* The funding of hormonal and surgical medical assistance for trans
people by national health insurance.

* The creation of processes for changing legal name and gender without
compulsory treatment or any form of diagnosis.

However, every trans organization joining the campaign is free to
choose their demands as long as the principal demand is supported.
We encourage participating organisations to choose their additional
demands to best reflect their current national medical and legal
situations.

If you want to confirm the participation of your group, please send an
email to research[at]tgeu.org with the subject “JOIN STP 2012” and the
following information:

Group / organization name:
Logo:
Country:
City:
Message: We join the campaign “Stop Trans Pathologization-2012”