French far-right politician Marion Maréchal has commented on the Cannes win of transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón. Now, six LGBTQ+ associations have filed an official complaint against the politician standing in the European elections. When the Cannes Film Festival by awarding the Best Actress prize to the ensemble cast of French director Jacques Audiard’s film , a cast which includes transgender actress Karla Sofía Gascón, one voice felt it had to make itself heard.
French far-right politician Marion Maréchal, the head of France’s Reconquête! party list for the European elections, made comments about Karla Sofía Gascón. She wrote on X: “So it's a man who is receiving the prize for..
. female interpretation at Cannes. Progress for the left is the erasure of women and mothers.
” Now, six associations - Mousse, Stop Homophobie, Familles LGBT, Adheos, Quazar and Fédération LBGTI + - have filed a complaint against Maréchal for her “transphobic insult.” “Marion Maréchal's comments deny the very existence of transgender people, as well as the violence and discrimination they suffer on a daily basis,” said Etienne Deshoulières, the lawyer for the six associations. The Stop Homophobie association deplored that “this illegal behaviour reinforces the climate of violence in which LGBT+ people live in France”.
According to the associations that filed the complaint against Maréchal, “85% of transgender people have already been victims .