2024-03-31 09:30:04
Every March 31, transgender communities celebrate their existence wherever they can. In several dozen countries, being a visible trans person means living under the constant threat of mistreatment, even incarceration. Trans women, like gays, risk the death penalty in nearly a dozen countries.
China now represses any trans or gender non-conforming representation on television, conversion therapy centers proliferate there. In Russia, after the ban on any form of transition, the LGBT+ movement is described as “terrorist”, leading to widespread police repression. In the United States, supporters of Donald Trump are leading an active campaign against LGBT+ minorities, with nearly 479 bills aimed at suppressing their rights. In the same vein, more than twenty conservative states have banned gender transitions for minors and criminalized their caregivers, despite vigorous opposition from medical and psychological associations.
In France, a group of senators Les Républicains (LR) are following the example of conservative America by proposing to prohibit any transition for minors. If this proposal were adopted, France would become the toughest European country on this subject. This measure is supported not by a rigorous scientific analysis nor by a representative consultation of minors who have undertaken a transition over the last twenty years in France, but by the interventions of a minority of antitrans activists.
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Today, the threat of banning medical and surgical transitions to minors is intensifying: the report by Senator Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio (LR) calls for questioning the right to transition before the age of 25 and values the words of conservative organizations not involved in supporting those affected.
Reactionary climate
This attack is closely linked to the current reactionary political climate. For several years, all pretexts have indeed been good on the part of collectives and associations to attack the rights of trans people: calls for a ban on continuing to use toilets associated with their gender, to practice competitive sporting activity, calls for de-reimbursement of care, withdrawal of protections from which people benefit from discrimination and attacks of which they are victims, calls for the repeal of the 2017 law allowing them to benefit from a change of civil status (without sterilization). The transidentity experience is thus systematically denied, with trans minors as the current focal point, now the subject of incessant debates with the complicity of certain media, as documented by the Association of LGBT Journalists. We also remember that in 2023 the Council of State had to reject the requests of two associations for children requesting the cancellation of the so-called Blanquer circular [sur le questionnement de genre à l’école].
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