Amendment No. 6 | Doc. 13742 | 21 April 2015

Discrimination against transgender people in Europe

Signatories: Mr Valeriu GHILETCHI, Republic of Moldova, EPP/CD ; Mr Ben-Oni ARDELEAN, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr Zsolt CSENGER-ZALÁN, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Ms Aleksandra DJUROVIĆ, Serbia, EPP/CD ; Ms Rózsa HOFFMANN, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, Hungary, EPP/CD ; Mr Aleksandar NIKOLOSKI, ''The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia'', EPP/CD ; Mr Cezar Florin PREDA, Romania, EPP/CD ; Mr Egidijus VAREIKIS, Lithuania, EPP/CD

Origin - 2015 - Second part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 6.2.1, delete the words:

"age, medical status,"

Explanatory note

Due to the consequences for the health of the person, age and medical status are important factors to decide whether a person should have access to the procedure to change his/her gender, name and to obtain the legal gender recognition (e.g. minors, elderly people and people in specific health situations).