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To Fight Against transphobia, the Existrans Demonstration brought together several thousand people in Paris (Credit:Alice Coffin with AFP) (Created on 10/19/2014) "Several thousand people marched Saturday in Paris for rights for trans people, chanting "against transphobia make some noise" or "psy is hell, trans are angry." On the eighteenth anniversary of Existrans, trans and intersex people and their supporters demanded, among others, the legal change of sexual status, for free and the right to a marital status. "We want a change of civil status to be accessible and free," said Teva Muhyi-Hassani, of the collective Existrans. The procession, marched from the Place Stalingrad, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, to the front of City Hall. It is now possible to change sex , marital status only by court order and judges often require medical evidence of the "irreversibility of the process of sex change" in other words, sterilization. In the procession, Tara Wels told AFP his journey to legally become a woman: "I had to pay 2,500 euros in legal fees, show that I took hormones for three years and present petitions from my family and my colleagues. " Your mother is Robert, ordinary transphobia The married woman, under the SNCF, her employer, said that surviving these tests, was due to her "strong character" and support from her family. But, she said, other transsexuals suffer more because "Transphobia is huge and is manifested by daily teasing and insults: they call you 'Robert', you are accused of being great ...". The protesters therefore called for government sponsored sensitivity information campaigns to make public awareness. They also lampooned the slogans "stupid and hurtful" activists from the Manif for all, (opposed to gay marriage). "Their lobbying has weakened the powers that be and trans have become the forgotten ones of their politics", regretted Teva Muhyi-Hassani,
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