Resources and trans access to urban spaces: an ideal of justice diluted by discrimination in Paris and London Ressources et accessibilité des espaces urbains pour les personnes trans : un idéal de justice à l’épreuve des discriminations à Paris et à Londres En Fr

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The cities of the Global North are perceived as places of emancipation for minorities. Is this true for trans people? Trans communities in Paris and London make many urban resources available to trans people. Identified by the inhabitants, places where such resources exist become attractive. Charities and support groups develop them according to an ideal of justice: access to facilities and services from which members of this minority are excluded is both a practical way of mitigating the inequality of access to public spaces they experience, and a recognition of their status as human beings. However, according to the trans experiences I investigated, take-up of these resources within the trans population is very unequal, split along gender, class and race lines. These resources are also unequally distributed across the cities. This unequal distribution of metropolitan resources casts doubt on the objective of justice to which civil society entities and elected officials aspire.