Trans are not mad anymore

It’s done. In France, transsexuals will not be considered mentally sick anymore. Until now, they could of course benefit of the social security because of their treatment but at the condition to be declared. Trans feel this admission as stigmatizing because it opens the door to confusion between gender identity trouble and psychiatric affection. But the health ministry assures that the medical care will stay in place. The value is a strong signal to the community following the international day against homophobia, which subject this year was transphobia, understand phobia of trans people. This initiative is the last (and ultimate ?) step for the acceptance by the French society of transsexual people. It is also a debate that medical community talks since always without really understand the real causes. The words you use can be as well misunderstand. Transsexualism must of course be distinguished from homosexuality but also from transvestitism which implicates that you know you belong to your gender and even though you change medically your outside appearance. Not to mention the confusion with the different states (intersexual ?) that you follow anatomically and physiologically between man and woman. The “real” transsexual lives permanently with the feeling that the gender is wrong, so comes the quest of changing the sexual status, legally and physically. Because surgery can help, right should have follow. It is in 1965 that France started to think about it. Surgery only resolved one piece of the puzzle and let justice decide or not to proceed the change on the civil state. It is interesting to note that for those people, they have a disgust for the genitals that they wish to make disappear. Sexual life is poor, as much for the libido than for the body. They often say they expect a satisfying sexuality following the body transformation, though It is not the first target of their desire but mostly the change of the body because of the legal change. Only since about 30 years that Transsexualism passed from the dream to reality, thanks to the progress of surgery. In March 1992, the European Community condemned France because It said that to refuse a change of civil state was a violation of European Convention of civil rights and fundamental freedom, regarding the right of private life and family. A few months later France recognized the right for transsexuals to change civil state, exactly like Sweden, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Turkey, Finland and Spain. That is to say that France still has the capacity to accept differences that yesterday were stated socially unacceptable.