This report examines how artificial intelligence, particularly facial recognition, biometric surveillance, and generative AI, systematically discriminates against trans and gender diverse people by enforcing rigid binary gender assumptions. It documents how these technologies misidentify, exclude, and expose trans communities to heightened surveillance, denial of services, and violence, while also being weaponized to spread disinformation and fuel anti-trans moral panics.
The report argues that these harms are not accidental technical flaws but structural outcomes of exclusionary design, biased data, and political misuse, and it underscores the need for gender-inclusive AI governance and regulation to prevent further human rights violations.
GATE has compiled a list of recommendations for Member-States, AI Companies and Social Media Platforms and for the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. The recommendations range from regulations on AI to protect human rights, to designing inclusive tools and systems, ensuring algorithmic transparency, to combating AI disinformation.