Can a transgender woman, recognized as a woman in civil status and having conceived her child before her operation, can she be declared a "
mother
"?
The general prosecutor's office pleaded Wednesday, December 1 to this effect, the Toulouse Court of Appeal will render its decision on February 9.
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The Court of Cassation must decide
Asked by AFP at the end of the hearing, the Attorney General Franck Rastoul said that he had requested that “
a second maternal affiliation can be established, in accordance with the civil status and the gender identity of (* Claire), subject to a relative mention change of sex in the margin of the birth certificate
”.
A legal vacuum plunges * Claire, 52, biological parent and female on her identity card, in a paradoxical situation. She does not appear on the birth certificate of her child born in 2014, because the registrar refused to register her as a mother. To appear as a mother, the civil registry had advised her to go through an adoption procedure, unacceptable for her, being a biological parent. "
Today there has been a great advance,
" responded Catherine Clavin, lawyer for the Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents (APGL). "
Provided that the Toulouse Court of Appeal follows the requisitions of the Attorney General
", she adds.
On the other hand, she regrets that the public prosecutor insists that a mention relating to the change of sex appear on the birth certificate of the 7-year-old girl, considering that it was "
stigmatizing
".
Engaged since 2014 in a judicial standoff, Claire hopes that February 9, date of the decision of the court of appeal, will mark the end of the proceedings.
“
I have been her mother since birth, I am the first to have taken her in my arms, she calls me mother.
I hope that justice will recognize it.
I have been fighting for 8 years against this legal vacuum,
”she declared.
(*) First names have been changed at the request of the interviewee