Smaïn Laacher, former president of the scientific council of the interministerial delegation to the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hatred, explains the reasons which, according to him, led to the dissolution of this body.
words collected by Solène Cordier
For the sociologist, the government body created in 2016 to shed scientific lighting to the Dilcrah – herself responsible for directing the public authorities on the fight against discrimination – suffered from the presence within ” Camps which over time have hardened their positions “.
The dissolution of the scientific council of Dilcrah comes after heated internal debates around transidentities. Are they at the origin of this decision?
No, but there are, on both sides, camps that over time have hardened their positions. I would say that in 2016, by adding the subjects on the anti-lgbt hatreds to the initial perimeter of the Dilcrah, and therefore to its scientific council, which hitherto treated anti-Semitism and racism, we have done an operation that had delay effects.
I am at the origin of a press release voted by several members of the scientific council in December 2022. It was intended to recall a certain number of fundamental, constitutional principles: we are in a country called France and in which we can debate. When one is republican, universalist, we must not be afraid of the debate.
I am ulcerated by the fascist conduct of certain transactivists – which I do not confuse with the militant field LGBT – who prevented the holding of conferences, meetings, the arrival of people whose positions they dispute, welcoming them with buckets of excrement, spitting them in the face. This was the case in Brussels for Caroline Eliacheff and Céline Masson of the Little Mermaid Observatory, or in Geneva for the literature teacher Eric Marty. You can’t treat people like that. Let them bear the contradiction passionately, I do not see any disadvantage, but such violence seems intolerable to me.
your belonging to the scientific council of the observatory of the little mermaid, an organization Deemed transphobic by experts from anti-LGBT hatred of the Dilcrah Scientific Council, was badly experienced by the latter…
I know Céline Masson, one of her co -founders, for a long time. When she asked me to join the Observatory’s scientific council, I accepted for this reason. I was barely three weeks old. When members of the Dilcrah scientific council learned it and moved it, we received LGBT associations at length with the interministerial delegate Sophie Elizéon. I made the decision to withdraw from the observatory, taking into account the controversy between the latter and the members of the Dilcrah Scientific Council on the question of the care of transgender minors.
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