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French State Forced To Pay Damages for Refusing to Fund Gender Transitions
In a recent court ruling, the French Social Security system was ordered to pay €3,000 in damages to two plaintiffs for not covering their gender transitioning costs. The health insurance fund of the Seine-Saint-Denis department has apparently broken the law when it failed to cover the costs of ‘treatment’ for two women wishing to become men. The facts of the case date back to January 2020. At the time, one of the two plaintiffs had the diagnosi…
The CPAM was ordered to pay EUR 3,000 in damages to each of the two complainants, whose care had been refused.
In its judgment issued this Monday, the court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) ordered the sickness insurance to reimburse 5,305.79 euros to a transgender man for an operation and to pay a total of 6,000 euros of damages to the two plaintiffs.
The Seine-Saint-Denis Health Insurance has been sentenced for refusing to take care of two gender transitions. It will have to reimburse the operating costs, but it will also have to pay 3,000 euros of damages to each of the two plaintiffs in recognition of the damage suffered. - The Sickness Insurance sentenced for refusing to take care of two gender transitions (Company topics).
At the time, the CPAM had justified its refusal to take over on the basis of a protocol dating back to 1989. In its decision, the Bobigny court reported that the scheme had been abolished, also ordering the Caisse nationale de l'Insurance maladie to pay 3,000 euros of damages to the plaintiffs.
Both complainants will receive €3,000 in damages in recognition of the damage suffered.
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