Maud Marin

Maud Marin or Maud Planchard (28 June 1945 – 21 June 2025) was a French lawyer and author, and the world's first known transsexual lawyer.

Early life Marin was born Jean Pascal Henri Planchard

She studied law and political science at the Sorbonne. She was recognised by the state as a transsexual. However, she still had to prostitute herself, under the aegis of the gang . in 1980.

In 1996, Marin published a new book, Have Pity on Victims (Pitié pour les victimes), in which she criticised the justice system for being more concerned with pursuing delinquents than with victim suffering. In the book, she also discussed the 1995 terrorist Paris RER station bombing, in which she alleged that the bomb was created in Seine-Saint-Denis and not in Algeria, as the police were claiming. Marin's book was labelled "dangerous" by the government

Later life In 2002, Marin was forced, for financial reasons, to leave Paris. She moved to her mother's house in Cahors. In 2006, she was forced to seek food assistance from the charity Restaurants du Cœur. and was buried in Cahors.

Critical reception Isabelle Boisclair, a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of Sherbrooke, considered Marin's autobiography Angel's Leap (Le Saut de l'ange) as one of several useful texts on intersexuality. Of the book, Boisclair wrote, "From a political standpoint, this text is part of an affirmative action movement, and as such, it holds undeniable importance for the intersex community".

Of her book in The Quarter of the Damned (Le Quartier des Maudites), Le Nouvel Obs wrote, "she gives voice to women in prison in a raw, humorous, and warm language. The language of the damned with tender hearts."

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