More than 800 collectives and political, artistic, activist and intellectual personalities are calling to demonstrate this Sunday, May 5 in France to denounce the “offensive” underway, according to them, against the rights of trans people and to defend the right to freely dispose of his body.
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The call to demonstrate was launched Tuesday in an article published on the website of the weekly Politis. “ The bill from Republican party senators against trans minors coincides with the release of a hateful book, Transmania, promoted by the entire political extreme right “, she denounces. “ Reactionaries seek to establish in public debate the idea that trans people are a danger: to children, to society and to themselves », we can still read.
Among the signatories are notably the writers Annie Ernaux and Vanessa Springora, the actress Andréa Bescond, the singer Bilal Hassani, the associations Act Up Paris, Strass, Family Planning and even the left-wing elected officials Mélanie Vogel and Clémentine Autain.
In their sights, a report on the transidentification of minors written internally by the LR group in the Senate and published in mid-March. The report recommends, among other things, banning the administration of puberty blockers to minors who are diagnosed with “gender dysphoria” (the feeling of an inadequacy between the gender felt and that of birth). This measure appears in a bill which will be examined in public session on May 28.
Conference prohibited
They also denounce the publication and promotion of the book Transmania which presents itself as a “ investigation into the abuses of transgender identity ” Who ” infiltrates all spheres of society “. Questioned by the Paris town hall, the operator JCDecaux removed the posters promoting them in the streets of the capital, judging them to be contrary to its ethics charter and apologized.
The communist senator from Paris Ian Brossat also asked the prefect on Tuesday to ban a conference on this book, organized on Monday May 6 at the Panthéon-Assas University at the initiative of the La Cocarde student union. The universities ” must not serve as platforms for hate speech that distorts reality and stigmatizes trans people, associating them with harmful ideologies “, he said in a press release. One of the co-authors of TransmaniaDora Moutot, retorted to him on there is no transphobia in this book », denouncing a “ censorship “.
Beyond the call to demonstrate this Sunday, the signatories of the platform demand a “ depsychiatrized transition, free and free for adults and minors “. They also ask for a “ access to PMA for all trans people “, ” stopping mutilation of intersex children » and “ massive means » for public services in order to ensure real access to abortion, transitions and contraception.