It’s been a year filled with challenges both for TENI and for the Irish trans community, so this holiday season is a great opportunity to try to restore our mental and physical strength. Most of us at TENI will be taking days off toward the end of December and our office will be closed from …
Join us for TENI’s Community Festive Event!All are welcome to join the team for a fun afternoon of festive music and refreshments! Where: TENI Community Space, 10 Ellis Quay, Dublin 7 (D07 DDN0)When: Thursday, December 15th. 2 pm to 4:30 pm.We’re really looking forward to seeing you!
TENI are happy to inform the community that this week, we have met with Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly TD.During this meeting, we discussed the provisions of gender affirming healthcare in Ireland for adults and for children and adolescents. We also discussed Ireland’s last place ranking in the TGEU Health Map 2022.We thank the Minister …
TENI met with Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly TD Read More »
On 20 November 2022, we pause to mark Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR) and raise awareness about violence against trans and gender-diverse people. Today we mourn and honour the 327 trans and gender-diverse people who were reported murdered worldwide between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022, whose lives might otherwise be forgotten. We are …
Joint Statement – Trans Day of Remembrance 2022: mourning, caring, mobilising Read More »
On occasion of the International Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), TGEU has released the 2022 update of Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM). The year 2022 saw 327 reported murders of trans and gender-diverse people between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022. With 222 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean remains the region that reported most …
327 trans people reported murdered – one in Northern Ireland Read More »
We’ve seen great strides for equality in Ireland however, we know that trans people still face huge challenges in school, at work, in accessing healthcare, and in living our daily lives. We want trans people to thrive. At TENI supporting our community is the most important for us and we believe that education is key …
TENI is aware of the concerns that have been raised around the filing of our audited accounts for 2021. We also know that the trans community as a whole has come under increased scrutiny recently and so we wanted to provide some information to the community on the actions that we are taking to ensure …
Across the globe, trans people lack access to basic, quality trans-specific healthcare. Backlash that attacks existing care hurts real people. As of June 2022, we mark three years of the formal depathologisation of trans and gender-diverse identities in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and the removal of gender incongruence from the list of …
Calling for complete depathologisation of trans identities – Joint statement Read More »
I remember it so vividly. It was a dark September evening. The past month or so had been a whirlwind and my whole life as I knew it had been turned completely upside down. I had finally faced up to what had been haunting me my entire life. I’d come out to my long term …
