Transgender Moroccan Woman Fights for Recognition in French Healthcare System

For her friends and loved ones, Lilia is an elegant and refined woman. But for Social Security, she remains a man. Her social security card still bears her male first name. "I haven’t yet made all the necessary steps to change it," she confides to the newspaper Le Parisien. The young "woman" is the transgender reference person in a hospital environment in Paris. She fights for the recognition of the rights of transgender people. "Trans people have suffered so much that everything must be done to reintegrate them as quickly as possible into a care pathway," Lilia supports.

But it is a long process, acknowledged participants in a roundtable on the rights of trans women, organized last week at the town hall of Paris-Centre. On this occasion, the people concerned shared their sufferings, their successes, their struggles and asked for advice to overcome their difficulties. Lilia, for her part, talks about a "identity malaise". She felt that "something was not right" and her parents were convinced that she had "lost her mind". The young woman also ev