Karla Sofia Gascón has filed a criticism with the Paris Folk Prosecutor in opposition to French far-right chief Marion Maréchal-Le Pen for transphobic feedback the flesh presser posted on social media following her Very best Actress win on the Cannes Movie Competition over the weekend.
Gascón made historical past on Saturday as the primary transgender actress to win the Cannes Very best Actress prize along co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz for his or her performances in Jacques Audiard’s gangster musical Emilia Perez.
Responding to the win on X, Maréchal Le Pen wrote: “So a man has won the Best Actress prize… progress for the left is the erasure of women and mothers.”
Gascón’s criticism is for “sexist contempt related to gender identity”. The offence carries a $4,066 (3,750 euros) high-quality.
In a commentary, Gascón’s attorney Etienne Deshoulières defined the offence have been presented into France’s Prison Code in April 2023 to battle “offensive and humiliating remarks aimed at transgender women, such as misgendering”.
Gascón’s felony get up follows scorching at the heels of a criticism filed on Monday in opposition to Maréchal-Le Pen by way of six French LGBT+ teams for the offence of “insult due to gender identity”, which is punishable by way of a most one while jail sentence and a high-quality of $48,000 (45,000 euros).
Deshoulières recommend Gascón’s isolated submitting added weight to the felony motion.
“Only the person targeted by the comments can act on this basis,” he stated. “It was therefore necessary for Karla Sofia Gascón to act alongside the LGBT+ associations to condemn Marion Maréchal for sexist comtempt due to gender identity.”
Maréchal Le Pen disregarded the primary submitting in an interview with French radio station France Inter on Tuesday pronouncing she would no longer be “intimidated by legal threats from LGBT militant-activists”.