Programs 2022: all the way to the bottom
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Several left-wing candidates propose a change of marital status on simple declaration in town hall for transgender people, as recommended by the Defender of Rights and a number of associations.
This is a long-standing measure by associations fighting for LGBT + rights: it is time to simplify the procedure for changing civil status for transgender people. The demand is not new, it was even already present during the last presidential campaign, in 2017, in the programs of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Philippe Poutou and Benoît Hamon. Five years later, it is clear that the situation has not changed. So, once again, several leftist candidates are promising to allow a free and free change of marital status for trans people. This is the case of the candidate of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the communist Fabien Roussel, or the candidate of the New Anti-Capitalist Party Philippe Poutou.
All advocate a change of marital status on simple declaration in town hall and the disappearance of the mention of gender on administrative forms. The deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône and rebellious candidate goes even further, evoking his desire to register the “gender freedom” in the Constitution, understood as “the free disposition of oneself, of one’s body and of one’s spirit, and this, from birth to death, that is to say the right to define one’s own identity…