Nepal, 15 August 2011 – [Repost from UNDP website] Nepal has just completed its first national census that officially includes a third option in the gender categories that citizens can select, opening the way for stronger recognition of sexual and gender minority rights in provision of public services.

Ireland, 15 July 2011 - The Gender Recognition Advisory Group, which was established in May 2010 to advise the Government as to what form future gender recognition legislation should take, has now published its report.

Nancy, France, 5 Jun 2011 - Stephanie Nicot married her partner Elise in town hall ceremony in the city of Nancy in eastern France. Stephanie a transwoman declined to lodge the documents required by French law to have her gender changed on the population register after gender reassignment surgery. 

Dublin, Ireland 19 Apr 2011 - Louise Hannon, is the first transgender worker to sucessfully rely upon the Employment Equality Act for discrimination on grounds of transsexualism. The Equality Tribunal awarded €35,422.71 in compensaton having found that she was discriminated against on the basis of gender and disability.

6 April 2011 - The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe announced that it has adopted a new convention to protect women from violence on 6 April 2011 which will expressly include violence on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

The Convention will now be opened for signature in May, and will come into force when ratified by 10 member states.

 

 

 

Brussels, 21 Mar 2011 — Members of the European Parliament have reacted to recent developments in national laws affecting transgender people.

Lithuania, 8 Mar 2011 - Lithuanian conservative parliamentarians led by the chairman of the Committee on Health Affairs registered a proposal to amend the Civil Code with a prohibition of gender reassignment surgery.