TENI and the Trans Groups Alliance are delighted to publish the Trans Groups Alliance Strategic Plan 2023-2027. The Trans Groups Alliance (TGA) is a partnership developed between TENI and various trans peer support and social groups in Ireland. The plan was developed using a collaborative approach between all existing members and sets out the TGA’s …
TENI has always been run by and for the community. Community engagement is an essential part of our identity. By becoming a TENI member, you are helping us to build a vibrant and sustainable trans community in Ireland. To vote or run in the 2023 Board elections you must be a current member of TENI. …
TENI has been made aware this week of a letter sent by the Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA) to Government Ministers about teaching gender diversity to primary school children. Since then the President, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste raised their voices in support of information disseminated in education. President Michael D Higgins said: “The …
TENI statement on gender diversity education in primary schools Read More »
Dozens of LGBTQ+ and human rights groups have written to Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar asking him to stop enabling hate and reform the Irish Data Protection Commission. for more information click here
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 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 »
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 »
On Thursday 28 July, NHS England announced that the current sole provider of gender identity health services for children and young people in England, NHS Tavistock and Portman (known by many simply as the Tavistock), will be replaced in Spring 2023 by two regional centres – one in London, and another in the North West. …
TENI’s response to the news that the Tavistock are closing their doors Read More »
