the High Authority for Health deplores “the exploitation for polemical purposes” of its current work

The HAS reacts in particular to an article in “Figaro”, published Thursday, which states that the organization “wants free access to gender transition for all, from the age of 16”, based on an internal working document .

The High Authority for Health (HAS) deplored, Friday December 13, a “instrumentalization for polemical purposes” of its ongoing work on supporting trans people. “People who provide support to HAS” to develop future recommendations on transgender transition “are subject to an obligation of confidentiality”she added in a press release. These people are required “not to communicate on the content of the debates and not to distribute the working documents given to them”, can also be read in the document.

Le Figaro published an article on Thursday asserting that the HAS “wants free access to gender transition for all, from 16 years old“based on an internal working document. According to the journal, the recommendations proposed by this documentt “coincide almost in every respect with the demands made by transactivist associations”. He mentions, among other things, that “hormonal treatment and its monitoring, among trans minors aged 16 to 18 having completed puberty, follows the adult's recommendations”.

In its press release, HAS deplores that the working document is “instrumentalized for polemical purposes to the detriment of the people concerned”. The text does not take on “no definitive character” and must still be the subject of several stages of deliberation before being adopted, she assures. It is currently subject to “an expanded critical rereading” by a reading group, before returning to the working group which “[rédigera] a new version”specifies the independent authority. The commission “recommendations, relevance and indicators” will then be seized, and, finally, the HAS college. Final publication is awaited “in the first half of 2025”.

HAS had already filed a complaint after the disclosure in The Figaro of the identity of certain members of the working group on the subject. She is also engaged in a legal battle with the Jurists for Childhood association, close to the Manif pour tous, which wishes to force her to publish the names of the members of this group. The HAS recommendations are good practice recommendations for caregivers “to optimize and harmonize their practices and organizations”summarizes the authority on its website.