The actress, who became the first transgender woman to win the Best Actress prize at Cannes, dedicated her award to “all the trans people who are suffering”. Following hateful comments made by Marion Maréchal, Gascón is now suing the French far-right politician. Karla Sofía Gascón, the breakout star of Cannes-favourite who won the Best Actress prize alongside Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz, has filed a complaint against French far-right politician Marion Maréchal.
The charges come after Maréchal, the head of France’s Reconquête! party list for the European elections, wrote on X in reference to Gascón’s win that “it is therefore a man who receives in Cannes the prize for...
best actress. The progress for the left wing is the erasing of women and mothers.” The hateful social post , leading six LGBTQ groups to file a complaint earlier this week for “transphobic insult.
” Now, Gascón’s lawyer Etienne Deshoulières confirmed Gascón had filed a legal complaint for “sexist insult on the basis of gender identity”. Maréchal, 34, could be sentenced to a one-year imprisonment and fined €30,000 if she’s found guilty of transphobic insult; alternatively, she could be fined €3,750 if she’s charged with “sexist insult due to one’s gender identity.” In an interview with Radio France Internationale, Maréchal responded to the legal complaint, saying: “I will not be prevented from continuing to say what is the truth.
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