On December 7, the Senate adopted in 1st reading a new bill to ban gender conversion therapy tabled by Laurence Vanceunebrock, from President Macron’s centrist party, LREM (“La République en Marche”). Although the alleged objective is to better protect the...
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Gender Changes in Children: Over 50 Experts Warn of Abuse
While there is a growing number of minors who claim to suffer from gender dysphoria saying they do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth, leading them to ask for gender transitions, a group of 50 experts from the Observatory of Ideological...
Gender Dysphoria Being Questioned: Overreaction, Overdiagnosis, and Overmedicalization?
Gender dysphoria is a medical term listed in American Psychiatric Association’s textbook to describe the distress resulting from the incongruence between the gender assigned at birth and the gender with which one identifies. It is "characterized by a strong and...
Sex Change: Repercussions on Civil Registers and Filiation
The press is speculating that French courts may soon render an unprecedented decision concerning how civil registers and filiation may be affected in the event of changing one’s biological sex. The Court of Appeals in Toulouse is currently hearing the case of a man...
Sex Change: High Court in London Rules Against Puberty Blockers
On December 1, 2020, in a landmark decision, the High Court in London rules against treatments that block puberty. The ruling follows a lawsuit filed by Keira Bell, a 23-year-old woman who began treatment with puberty blockers at age 16 to appear masculine. Today,...
Transgender Frenchman Loses Battle to Be Recognized as “Mother”
Following 6 years of legal battle over the daughter’s birth certificate, on Wednesday, September 16, the Court of Cassation rejected a transgender person’s appeal to be listed as a second mother. After the birth of his first two children, the Frenchman who now goes by...