“You have to start from scratch and redo the whole file with the family court judge, without having any idea of the time limit to get a new answer.
"Mother of Lilie, a transgender child who will celebrate her 9th birthday on Saturday, Chrystelle Vincent announced on Monday that the public prosecutor of Carpentras (Vaucluse) had refused the change of civil status requested by the family.
The official papers of the child who announced to her parents that "she" felt like a little girl two years ago will still bear her male first name at birth.
The prosecution motivates its refusal by the fact that a procedure of "irreversible change" has not been initiated.
Followed by a team from the Robert Debré hospital in Paris
“However, we are only asking for the application of the 2016 law,” claims the mother.
This is contrary to the process of the transition path in a child.
Lilie doesn't understand why adults can refuse her first name.
It's an emotional lift for her, she goes from hope to disillusionment.
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The “little girl” is followed by a multidisciplinary team from the Robert Debré hospital in Paris.
“After publicizing her case at the start of the school year, we got the schoolteacher to call her Lilie and things are going very well.
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By testifying in many media, Lilie has become a symbol of the fight for the acceptance of transgender children.
“It is almost she who is the initiator, ensures Chrystelle Vincent, she even wanted to organize a demonstration in the school to claim the right to be different.
By saying who she is, says the mother, she knows she is helping other children in her case.
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