« We are considered heretics » – Liberation

In his Parisian apartment, Yaël, 48, has a fun with a « Divine joke » And imagine what she could have done in another life to be both « Jewish, Berber-Moroccan and Trans girl ». Cadet of a large Orthodox Jewish family who raises him as a boy, as indicated by her identity papers, she grew up in order to comply with the obligations reserved for men – the mitzvot in the Torah. At that time, in the 80s, trans representations were rare if not caricatured, like the character of Katia embodied by Christian Clavier in Santa Claus is junk. « A scene that I looped in my head at the time of my coming out, Makes Yaël. It’s violent. «  She finds this « Larve transphobia » When his brothers distanced themselves at the announcement of his transition in 2021.

An era which is also that of a visibility of the trans community, which becomes in return the object of moral panic. Especially in the United States, where Donald Trump has been maneuvering, since the start of his second term, a transphobic offensive against a supposed « Gender theory ». According to the independent organization Trans Legislation Tracker, 905 anti-Trans laws were proposed in 2025, 100 of which were adopted in 23 American states. Last: