French LGBT+ teams have filed a grievance with the Paris Folk Prosecutor in opposition to far-right baby-kisser Marion Maréchal-Le Pen accusing her of “transphobic insult” for feedback she made about Karla Sofía Gascón’s Easiest Actress win on the Cannes Movie Competition over the weekend.
Gascón made historical past as the primary transgender actress to win the Cannes Easiest Actress prize along co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz for his or her performances in Jacques Audiard gangster musical Emilia Perez.
According to the win, Maréchal Le Pen posted on X: “So a man has won the Best Actress prize… progress for the left is the erasure of women and mothers.”
Spanish actress Gascón, who performs a Mexican drug lord present process a intercourse exchange, devoted the prize to “all trans people who suffer every day” and evoked the struggles of trans nation within the face of prejudice.
French LGBT+ orgs Mousse, LGBT Households, Adheos, Quazar, LBGTI+ Federation and STOP homophobia mentioned they’d filed a grievance in opposition to Maréchal-Le Pen on Monday with the Paris Folk Prosecutor for “insult due to gender identity”.
They famous in a remark that the offence is punishable through one age of imprisonment and a advantageous of 45,000 euros below French legislation.
Maréchal Le Pen disregarded the submitting in an interview with French radio station France Inter on Tuesday morning, pronouncing: “I’m not going to let myself be intimidated by legal threats from LGBT militant- activists… the truth is that being a man or a woman is a biological reality, whether you like it or not. The XX and XY chromosomes cannot be undone.”
Maréchal Le Pen is these days at the marketing campaign path for Ecu Parliament elections in June, as head of Reconquête!, the far-right birthday party based through former failed presidential candidate Eric Zemmour.
The LGBT+ teams famous that Zemmour had up to now been charged and located accountable of homophobia in September 2023, in the case of feedback he made at the populist information channel CNews in 2019.
“Marion Maréchal Le Pen denies the existence of transgender people, as well as the violence and discrimination these people are the victim of every day,” mentioned Étienne Deshoulières, the legal professional representing the LGBT workforce collective.
STOP homophobie Basic Secretary Terrence Khatchadourian urged that Maréchal-Le Pen’s feedback – which he certified as “illegal behaviour” bolstered a atmosphere of violence for LGBT+ nation in France.
“Marion Maréchal-Le Pen’s speeches are also heard by those who take action,” he mentioned. “Since 2016, violence against LGBT+ people has exploded by more than 129%, with the largest increase affecting transgender people. We are therefore more determined than ever to protect them.”
