The regulation of gender reassignment for transsexuals (which has been traced back to the inviolable rights of the person by domestic and supranational case law) finds a fragmentary response in the Italian legal system, mainly focused on the strict regulation of controls and authorization profiles, which is not counterbalanced by a congruent legislative guarantee of psychological and medical support during the transition process. Despite the numerous evolutionary interpretations promoted by ordinary and constitutional jurisprudence, Law No. 164/1982 continues to be based on the prior obligation to have recourse to a civil judge for the affirmation of the right to gender identity, relegating the administration to an entirely marginal role, of 'taking note' of the procedural statutes.

The PRIN Project Transsexuals' Rights and Administrative procedure for Name and Sex rectification (T.R.A.N.S.), born from the collaboration between the Universities of Milan and Trento, proposes a series of seminars to investigate the possible simplification tools that - also by looking at some foreign experiences - favor a more effective guarantee of the right to identity, by translating the procedures for access to care and rectification of personal identity into administrative procedures. These meetings, organized in synergy between the Faculty of Law and the Department of Cellular, Computational, and Integrated Biology (CIBIO), aim to explore with an interdisciplinary view the intertwining of public and private interests involved in gender reassignment through a dialogue between professionals, magistrates, and scholars.