TGEU was established on the first European Transgender Council in Vienna in November 2005 and formally registered as an Austrian charitable organisation 14 months later. TGEU was run as a volunteer organisation for many years. In 2008 TGEU acquired their first independent project-based funding. However, it took until 2009 to hire first project staff (to implement the TvT project). In 2012 the General Assembly held in
Dublin decided to move the seat of the organisation to
Berlin, a process that was finalised with the closing of the
Austrian association at the General Assembly held in
Budapest in 2014. In 2016, TGEU’s Sex Work Policy was enthusiastically acclaimed and adopted by the General Assembly at the European Transgender Council in Bologna, Italy. Thanks to the efforts of trans activists in Central Asia, the General Assembly voted to broaden the mandate TGEU to also include Central Asia at the European Transgender Council 2018 in Antwerp, Belgium. As of 2025, TGEU is headquartered in
Berlin,
Germany, and has a team of fourteen staff members and a board. With over 200 member organisations in almost 50 countries, TGEU continues to combine
advocacy work in
Europe and
Central Asia with community work in partnership with member groups. == Research ==