When releasing her statement titled” Human rights and gender identity and representation,” the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovi, said that “realising the rights of transgender individuals is a matter of applying animal rights equally to all. States have the primary responsibility to remove the obstacles trans people are facing in exercising their individual rights.
The report makes a list of recent accomplishments, long-standing and new challenges faced by trans people, including those who are further marginalized due to their characteristics or status, while acknowledging that trans people are a diverse group of people with different experiences, identities, and viewpoints.
It covers a range of issues such as non- discrimination, violence, family law, healthcare, legal gender recognition, asylum, employment, conversion practices, education, and poverty and housing. Additionally, it addresses issues that have recently become a hot button in hostile public discussion, such as gender-specific access to spaces and categories in settings like sports, sanitation, and detention, and how trans people’s rights are perceived as a significant threat to women’s rights.
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