Bill submitted by French socialist MPs: towards a simplified gender recognition
http://www.tgeu.org/node/271Socialist MP Michèle Delaunay and the whole socialist parliamentary group submitted on December 22nd 2011 a bill that aims at simplifying legal gender recognition for transgender citizens.
It concludes three years long endeavors of a parliamentary working group lead by Michèle Delaunay with the expertise of HES activists (Homosexualités & Socialisme)
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- to simplify the legal proceeding enabling gender change in civil status, aiming at, according Michèle Delaunay's own words, cancelling its traumatic and barbarian nature. The proposed proceeding recognizes the individual's preferred gender identity, without any prior obligation to undergo sterilisation or other medical procedures such as sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy, and therefore comply with the resolution 1728 ( article 16.11.2) voted on April 29th 2010 by the Parliament Assembly of Council of Europe.
