transsexualism

Abstract

Transsexualism is characterised by a person’s strong wish to belong to the oppositesex and the obsessional desire to align their assigned sex to that with which they trulyidentify; it is a firm belief. For a long time, the chromosome analysis criterion led toall requests for legal identity change to be refused in civil registers. nevertheless,following a judgement pronounced by the Echr in 1992 and vehement trans-identitydemands, the French state was forced to relax the conditions allowing social changeto be undertaken. under the influence of European law and other internationalprovisions, legislative action was opened to debate. The bioethical laws of 29 July1994, 6 august 2004 and 7 July 2011 did not, however, provide a legal framework fortranssexualism. The question remains a matter for jurisprudence through the court ofcassation. This case-law approach – a vector of legal insecurity and inequality –places transgender people in a highly-precarious social situation