A young woman I know, who is half French and a French citizen but grew up outside of France, has been trying for many months to get her French Social Security straightened out. (Sécurité sociale is the health-care system, not the retirement system as it is in the U.S.).
As a French citizen, she has had a Sécu number her whole life, and been reimbursed for health-care expenses with no problem. But now that she is back in France, she seems to fall between the cracks, and every time she goes to one office, they tell her she needs to go somewhere else with a different document.
"I went to my mutuelle," she said, "and this time they told me my number was wrong. All the French numbers begin with one or two, and mine doesn't. They said that my number meant that I was a transexual."
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