An application for a change of gender and, where applicable, forenames in civil status records, shall be brought:
1° Either before the court within whose jurisdiction the person concerned resides;
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2° Or before the court within whose jurisdiction the birth certificate of the person concerned was drawn up or, in the case of a birth abroad, the court within whose jurisdiction the central civil status department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs holding the birth certificate is located;
However, where the application is made by a person who is not a national of a Member State of the European Union, the court in whose jurisdiction the application is made will have jurisdiction to hear the application.
However, where the application is made by a refugee, stateless person or beneficiary of subsidiary protection who has a certificate in lieu of a birth certificate issued by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, the Paris judicial court alone has jurisdiction to hear the application.