2023-07-05 15:09:50
The deputies of insubordinate France (LFI) presented a bill on Wednesday to again demand the opening of PMA to transgender men, born biologically female and able to have a pregnancy. “Transgender men, people born biologically female who transition to male and/or fluid gender, with gestational capacities, cannot have recourse to ART (medically assisted procreation, also called ART) for the sole reason of the mention of their sex in the civil status”, deplored the rebellious elected Ségolène Amiot, during a press conference at the National Assembly.
“A mention in the civil status should not be an obstacle to kinship”, she insisted with her colleague Bastien Lachaud. The “bioethics” law of August 2021 extended access to assisted reproduction to female couples and single women. In July 2022, the Constitutional Council validated the exclusion of transgender men from access to PMA. A provision that was contested by an association for the defense of trans people.
In addition to the opening of the PMA to transgender people, the text of Ségolène Amiot plans to sanctuary the self-preservation of gametes for all people. “The change in sex designation makes the use of gametes by couples uncertain today,” argued the MP for Loire-Atlantique.
Turmoil in the LFI group
Her bill, which is not on the agenda of the National Assembly, would also like to make possible the technique known as “reception of oocytes from the partner” or ROPA, which allows a woman to give a oocyte to his partner, with a view to assisted procreation. This technique, authorized in Spain, had been discussed but rejected in previous debates on French bioethical laws, some seeing it as a shift towards surrogacy. “There is neither near nor far with this bill the possibility of resorting to surrogacy,” defended Ségolène Amiot.
Finally, its text provides that the procedure for the early joint recognition of a child be extended to all couples, including those in which “the man gives birth to the child”. During the previous five-year term, LFI deputies Bastien Lachaud and Danièle Obono had tabled a similar bill to “make medically assisted procreation a universal right”.
The group experienced a stir in early June on the issue of the rights of LGBT + people when François Ruffin had set aside a law on gender change in the name of “appeasement”. Several rebellious elected officials had criticized a “personal” position, and the deputy from the Somme, potential candidate for the presidential election of 2027, had made amends and acknowledged having to “progress” on this issue.
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