A poster for the family planning, carrying the slogan “at the planning, the men also can be precious”, was strongly criticized by elected officials of the right and extreme right.
Le Monde with AFP
The minister delegate responsible for equality between women and men, Isabelle Rome, provided her support for the family schedule on Monday, targets of strong criticism from elected officials on the right and extreme right, to have Used the image of a transgender man pregnant in a communication campaign.
“Family planning is an essential historic association for women’s rights and access to contraception and abortion. I fully support the action,” said the minister, according to her words transmitted to The France-Presse agency (AFP). “Let’s not let the extreme right stir up hatred by instrumentalizing a communication campaign which I can understand that it does not consensus,” she adds.
The Minister refers to a poster for family schedule, bearing the slogan “at the planning, men also can be pregnant”. A drawing represents a transgender man (that is to say born biologically woman and whose gender identity is masculine) during her pregnancy.
The family planning claims a “unconditional” welcome
This message was strongly criticized on social networks, especially by right or far right voices. The deputy RN Laure Lavalette thus castigated “Archi-Subventional militants who seek only to spread their grotesque and false ideology”, while Laurence Trochu (reconquest!) Denounced the “doctrines” of the association. “We don’t want it,” she wrote on Twitter, with the hashtag #Protegeonsnofants.
The deputy RN and vice-president of the National Assembly, Sébastien Chenu, among other things, denounced an “obsession with everything”.
But that it is stupid…. And probably dangerous in the end, this obsession with deconstructing everything. And thank you for not… https://t.co/tc2irkoygbis/p>- sebchenu (@Sébastien Chenu)
Denouncing “drifts” which “must stop”, the deputy (LR) Fabien Di Filippo said for his part that the family schedule “is moving away from science to pour into the most questionable ideological activism”.
In response, the feminist association had denounced, August 19, in a press release , a” denigration campaign on the back of gender minorities “, and specified that it was reflecting on a possible legal action against” instigators of hatred, which are sometimes elected officials the Republic “.
Basically, the family schedule stressed that he was practicing a “unconditional” welcome. Some trans people “ask for advice for contraception, abortion, medical follow-up of their transition” and “it is up to us to ensure that they feel welcome,” he added.
Several left -wing political figures have supported the family schedule.