LGBTQIA+ et Planning familial : la question des minorisé·e·s en raison de leur sexe ou de leur genre dans une association féministe pour le droit à la santé sexuelle.

Historically mobilized on access to contraception and abortion of women, Planning familial is a feminist and popular education organization whose struggles for universal access to sexual health have gradually spread to sexual and gender minorities. Today, a majority of the local associations of the movement lead actions with and for LGBTQIA+ people: inclusion of the topic in sex education sessions, individual reception, support group, medical examination… most of the time in collaboration with local organization of concerned persons. If feminism and the experience of Planning familial are strengths, its inclusive stance and the fact that it is not a communautary organization can be a challenge, or even an obstacle.

Investigating health services for sexual and gender minorities in France: a qualitative study protocol.

INTRODUCTION: Discrimination and structural violence experienced by sexual and gender minorities are the source of social inequalities in health. The last decade has been marked by major developments in the provision of sexual health services for these minorities in France. This paper presents the research protocol of the Services for Minorities-Lesbian Gays Bisexuals Transgender Intersex+ (SeSAM-LGBTI+) study, which aims to document the health, social and professional challenges in the organisation of current health services for sexual and gender minorities in France. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The SeSAM-LGBTI+ study relies on a multidisciplinary qualitative study. It has two objectives: (1) to analyse the history of the development of LGBTI+ health services in France, through interviews with key informants and rights activists and through a study of archives and (2) to study the functioning and challenges of a sample of health services currently offered to LGBTI+ people in France, through a multiple case study, using a multilevel and multisited ethnography. The study will rely on approximately 100 interviews. The analysis will be based on an inductive and iterative approach, combining sociohistorical data and the cross-sectional analysis of the case studies. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study protocol has undergone a peer review by the Institut de Recherche En santé Publique's scientific committee and has been approved by the research ethical committee of Aix-Marseille University (registration number: 2022-05-12-010). The project has received funding from December 2021 to November 2024. The results of the research will be disseminated from 2023 onwards to researchers, health professionals and community health organisations.

Assurer l'accès aux droits sexuels et reproductifs en temps de crise sanitaire : le Planning familial en mouvement.

From the beginning of the first lockdown, Le Planning Familial, a feminist and SRHR delivery service organization, with its 70 local associations have come together to pursue its mission: to ensure access to SRHR and women's rights. The quarantine has had major consequences: it has increased gender-based violence including domestic violence, it has complicated women's lives (in accessing sexual health services, late-term abortions, abortion for minors, renewal of contraception, filing of complaints, etc.) and it has limited access to information and rights (presence of antichoice movements on the internet). In order to respond to those difficulties, Le Planning Familial has been investing in its toll-free hotline "Sexualities, contraception, abortion" 0 800 08 11 11. The organization set up a communication campaign to make the information related to the hotline, the access to contraception methods and abortion in times of COVID more visible. Furthermore, the association innovated its means of welcoming and supporting women, youth and LGBTQI people within its SRHR local centers and its advocacy work. The political and democratic life of Le Planning Familial has continued. It has allowed the organization to fulfill its role as a feminist advocate. Currently, its main piece of advocacy has been to ensure access to abortion. Le Planning Familial and its members have been taking part in various actions along with parliamentarians, SRHR and feminist organization and activists at the national, European and international scale.