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Laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity were enacted in 1985 and 2012, respectively. In 2010, France became the first country in the world to declassify gender dysphoria as a mental illness .
Intersex people in France face significant gaps in protection from non-consensual medical interventions and protection from discrimination. The birth of Abel Barbin, a nineteenth-century intersex woman, is marked in Intersex Day of Remembrance.
In 2010, France removed gender identity disorder as a diagnosis by decree. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] On 6 November 2015, a bill to allow transgender people to legally change their gender without the need for sex reassignment surgery and forced sterilisation was approved by the French Senate. [ 18 ]
This was extended to France's Olympic athletes on grounds they were on a "public service mission", the government said. VARYING RULES Rights groups say that fits a pattern of discrimination ...
The Ministry of Women's Rights (now a secretariat) was a ministry of the Government of France. As of 2017 [update] (under Macron and the Philippe Government ), Marlène Schiappa is the Secretary of State of the new Secretariat of Equality between women and men department. [ 1 ]
Chile bans all discrimination and hate crimes based on gender identity and gender expression. The Gender Identity Law, in effect since 2019, recognizes the right to self-perceived gender identity, allowing people over 14 years to change their name and gender on all official documents without prohibitive requirements. [ 227 ]
Human rights in France are contained in the preamble of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic, founded in 1958, and the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. France has also ratified the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights , as well as the European Convention on Human Rights 1960 and the Charter of Fundamental ...
France’s motto of “Liberty, equality, fraternity” is an inspiration to democratic nations around the world, writes Keith Magee. But the police shooting of a 17-year old boy of Algerian ...