Rarely a question of public health has not crystallized the tensions so much. The transidentity, which designates the discrepancy felt between biological sex and gender identity with which a person identifies, regularly returns to public debate. At the request of the Ministry of Health, the High Authority for Health (HAS) must publish its recommendations on the health and care paths for transgender persons on Friday 18 July.
It will not be the first time that bodies have been pronounced on the subject of transidentity. Before the High Authority for Health, the Defender of Rights or the Human Rights Consultative Committee had already looked at gender issue, a subject on which French authorities are looking more and more.
The human rights defender
The defender of rights has repeatedly seized the issue of transidentity. From 2020, a framework decision recommended the use of terms “Gender identity” et “Transgender people”recalling that the transition “Ball of privacy” and does not in any case constitute a pathology. He pointed out that “Transidentity is an independent experience of morphology and therefore of the sex of people”.
In a new decision of 2025, Claire Hédon, the defender of rights takes up these principles. It calls to facilitate the administrative procedures for change of civil status and guarantee respect for gender identity in school, university and professional circles. It requires, among other things, the assignment of transgender persons in a prison establishment corresponding to the gender identity expressed.
Report for the Ministry of Health
In 2022, Olivier Véran, then Minister of Health, commanded a report on the care path of transgender persons. This document, drawn up by Doctor Hervé Picard, general practitioner and public health doctor, and Simon Juitant of the Association-T association, should serve as a basis for the recommendations of the High Health Authority published on Friday.
Their report calls for considering transidentity as a question of sexual health, and not mental. He pleads for increased training of health professionals, notably in child psychiatry, and for the direct involvement of transgender persons in the development of health policies and practices.
The National Consultative Human Rights Commission
In a report published in 2022, the National Commission for Human Rights (CNCDH) highlights the persistence of stereotypes and received ideas in the company that “Testify that homosexuality and transidentity have not yet entered the “normality “ ». She alerts discrimination at school, in the world of work and prisons.
The Commission therefore recommends that public authorities strengthen legislation and increase funding dedicated to the fight against discrimination. Among its other proposals, the CNCDH hopes to set up national protocols for better medical care for transgender people.
Committee of experts about sport
As part of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Ministry of Sports has mandated a group of experts on the question of the participation of transgender people in high -level sport. Should we allow a transgender woman to compete in the female category? The committee, chaired by Sandra Forgues, Athlete Transgenre, and Jean-François Toussaint, professor of physiology, recommends a reasoned approach.
Their report says that taking hormones in transgender women leads to measurable loss of sports. Experts therefore call for sports federations to define clear and respectful rules on the eligibility of transgender athletes, adapted to each discipline and type of test, as well as to train the supervisors of transidentity.