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Title: French judiciary makes transgender boob
Post by: Shana A on June 14, 2010, 07:36:37 AM
French judiciary makes transgender boob

Ruddy Europe wants to standardise everything

By Jane Fae Ozimek
Posted in Law, 14th June 2010 09:40 GMT

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/14/french_judiciary_boob/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/14/french_judiciary_boob/)

A peculiar obsession with breast size as the test of true womanhood popped up in a French court last week, as the Chief Prosecutor in Nancy ruled that a transgendered woman couldn't possibly be a woman unless her breasts measured up to size.

Argument is raging over the case of Delphine Ravisé-Giard, who first transitioned back in 2007. She is a long-term and serving member of the French Air Force – and the French Military had no problem recognising her new gender, in accordance with her own self-identification.