Press Release

A delegation from Accept – LGBT Cyprus met today with the President of Cyprus Mr. Nicos Anastasiades, where he announced that the Government immediately forwards the draft bill on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics to the Legal Service for technical examination.

This important step was made possible following lengthy discussions between the organisation and the Government, as well as the parliamentary parties, and aims to solve a big part of everyday problems faced by trans and intersex people in our country.

The organisation, which presented the draft bill to all the main Presidential Candidates, and who all pledged support to it, expects that the technical examination will be completed within the coming two months and that the bill will then be forwarded shortly after to the Parliament for discussion, regardless of the outcome of the elections.

ELECTIONS AT THE CONFERENCE

Date: Sat, 09/12/2017
Time: 10:00
Location: University of Nicosia

Dear Members, Friends of Accept – LGBT Cyprus,

Following our previous mailings regarding the Annual General Assembly of the organisation, we would like to inform you that the deadline for sending applications for the elections has now passed. You may now download the following files:

A delegation from Accept – LGBT Cyprus met on Thursday, November 30^th with the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades to discuss the difficulties faced by the LGBTI people in Cyprus today. On behalf of the Government, the meeting was also attended by the Minister of Justice Ionas Nicolaou. On behalf of the Council of Europe the meeting was attended by the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Stella Kyriakidou, the International Expert on Gender Identity Silvan Agius, the Vice Rector for Faculty and Research of the University of Nicosia and Chairman of the Bioethics Committee of Cyprus Constantinos Phellas and the Associate Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Cyprus, Aristotelis Constantinides.

The main topic of discussion during the meeting was the need to resolve key problems relating mainly to the trans and instersex communities in Cyprus. On behalf of the organisation, the President of Accept-LGBT Cyprus, Costa Gavrielides, presented a preliminary draft Bill on Gender Identity, Gender Expression and Sex Characteristics which is currently being prepared by Cypriot and International lawyers and experts with the active support of the Council of Europe. The preparation of the draft bill is expected to be completed by the end of the month.

A delegation from Accept – LGBT Cyprus met on Monday 27 November with the Presidential Candidate Mr. Stavros Malas to discuss the difficulties faced by the LGBTI people in Cyprus today. Additionally, the Presidential Candidate’s programmatic positions where presented to the organization.

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