In March 2026, municipal elections will take place. In the run-up to this political sequence, candidates commit themselves, through this manifesto published in the winter issue of the têtu· magazine, to finally making life easier for trans people and, more broadly, for queer families.
The right, the far right, and the masculinist sphere are today fueling a moral panic around the civil status of trans people. The municipal elections on March 15 and 22, 2026 will, in this regard, be decisive for the rights of LGBTQIA+ people.
Mayors do not write the law, but they have the power to enforce it and sometimes to make it evolve. We remember the struggles, from the PACS to marriage for all, including the current fight against HIV. At each step, some town halls opened the way while others tried to close it again. It was in Bègles, on June 5, 2004, that a same-sex couple married for the first time in France, forcing Parliament to act. Between 1999 and 2013, many municipalities, often left-wing, chose to apply equality even before it was enshrined in law by celebrating PACS in town halls.
That is why we affirm that it is time to go further, and that mayors hold the keys to advancing practices and rights.
To End All Institutional Transphobia
Trans and intersex people currently endure persistent institutional mistreatment.
As November 20, 2025, Transgender Day of Remembrance, reminds us once again, the lives broken by transphobia, we want 2026 to be the year when institutional transphobia ends in municipal services, notably in civil status. We no longer accept, in 2026, that the rectification of a first name or a gender marker be a bureaucratic and judicial obstacle course. The 2016 law demedicalized the procedure. Ten years later, it is time to make it simple, quick and transparent, based on self-determination, including for minors according to their level of maturity, and for people who are detained or deprived of liberty. Juridicization should no longer be the rule, and we will put an end to it.
For this, we will anticipate the expected evolutions, welcome and process the requests of trans people for civil status as required by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the recommendations of the European Council’s Commissioner for Human Rights and those of the Defender of Rights. In this framework, we favor the wording used by the CJEU, “rectification of the gender marker”, which fully corresponds to the right to rectification guaranteed by the GDPR.
Ending a Two-Tier Public Service
We no longer want trans parents to have to fight to obtain a correct designation on civil status acts. If we are elected, we will broadly refuse that the public service stigmatize LGBTQIA+ people, their couples and their families.
We want all same-sex and open families to see their parenthood recognized, supported, and protected, with clear and fast procedures for recognizing parentage, in the best interests of both couples and children, and we will act accordingly, including with regard to ART performed abroad or the transcription of birth certificates in a third country.
We also no longer want intersex children, often subjected to surgical interventions without medical necessity, to have their journey further complicated by rigid civil status rules. We will promote in our municipalities inclusive forms, third-gender markers, and information on the possibility of deferring birth sex registration, in line with international best practices.
Our services will accompany all families in respecting their diversity and will defend the rights of intersex children against any mutilation, by informing parents and professionals.
A Republic of Equality and Exemplarity, in Every Town Hall
We commit to harmonizing administrative practices in our communes, in accordance with the most demanding French and international recommendations concerning sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sexual characteristics.
We will implement in our town halls concrete and measured action plans to eliminate discrimination in recruitment and in the workplace within municipal services, as well as in welcoming everyone into these services.
We will preserve and encourage the work of LGBTQIA+ associations in our communes, because we know the immense work they carry out in the interest of all.
Because it is also in town halls that real equality for all is played out, we will make 2026 a new step in equality.
First Signatories
- Emmanuel Grégoire (Socialist Party, Paris)
- David Belliard (Greens, Paris)
- Ian Brossat (PCF, Paris)
- Grégory Doucet, Mayor (Greens, candidate for Lyon)
- François Piquemal (LFI, Toulouse)
- Ronan Loas (Horizon, Ploemeur)
- Michaël Delafosse (Socialist Party, Montpellier)
- Juliette Chesnel Le Roux, (Greens – Socialist Party – Communist Party, Nice)
- Nathalie Appéré, Mayor (Socialist Party) and candidate for Rennes
- Nadège Azzaz, Mayor (Socialist Party) and candidate for Châtillon
- Mathieu Hanotin, Mayor (Socialist Party) and candidate for Saint-Denis
- Johanna Rolland, Mayor (Socialist Party) and candidate for Nantes
- Léonore Moncond’huy, (Greens, Poitiers)
- Régis Godec, Greens candidate for the mayoralty of Toulouse
- Stéphane Baly, Greens candidate for the mayoralty of Lille
- Katy Vuylsteker, Greens candidate for the mayoralty of Tourcoing
- Claire Zytka-Taranto, Greens candidate for the mayoralty of Lomme (associated commune of Lille)
- Simon Jamelin, Greens candidate for the mayoralty of Hellemmes (associated commune of Lille)
- Pierre-Yves Bournazel (Horizons-Paris)
- Pierre Jakubowicz (Horizons-Strasbourg)
