Controversy in France over a poster with a pregnant transgender man

"Men can be pregnant too.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
24 August 2022 Wednesday 06:30
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Controversy in France over a poster with a pregnant transgender man

"Men can be pregnant too." This is the slogan of a French campaign that has unleashed a barrage of criticism. The dissemination has been promoted by the feminist association Le Planning Familial, which defends sexual education, contraception and abortion.

The controversy focuses on a poster that the association has created in its communication plan that presents a drawing of a transgender man, who was attributed the female sex at birth, but who identifies with the male gender during his pregnancy.

Its spread especially unleashed criticism from the extreme right. "But how stupid... and probably dangerous in the end, this obsession with deconstructing everything," tweeted National Rally spokesman Sébastien Chenu.

RN deputy Laure Lavalette also spoke out to point out that "archi-subsidized militants only seek to spread their grotesque and false ideology." For his part, the deputy (LR) Fabien Di Filippo estimated that the organization "is moving away from science to turn to the most questionable ideological activism."

The Delegate Minister for Equality between Women and Men, Isabelle Rome, spoke out this Monday 22 in support of Le Planning Familial, assuring that it is "a historic association that is essential for women's rights, access to contraceptives and to abortion." "Let's not let the extreme right stoke hatred using a communication campaign that I can understand does not achieve a consensus," the minister added on Monday.

On the other hand, some sectors of feminism were outraged by the campaign. One of the associations called the campaign "of denigration behind the back of gender minorities." In this regard, it indicated that it is studying possible legal actions against "inciters of hatred, who are sometimes elected officials of the Republic."

Le Planning Familial responded to criticism to denounce in a statement that it had received a "very violent attack" on social networks by the extreme right and defended its "unconditional" reception, regardless of its "gender identity".