The Delegate Minister for Equality between Women and Men, Isabelle Rome, on Monday gave her support to Family Planning, heavily criticized for having used, in a communication campaign, the image of a pregnant transgender man.
“Family Planning is a historic partnership essential to women’s rights and access to contraception and abortion. I fully support your action, ”said Isabelle Rome, according to her words transmitted to our AFP colleagues.
“Let’s not let the extreme right incite hatred by instrumentalizing a communication campaign that I can understand does not achieve consensus,” he adds.
A campaign especially criticized by the extreme right
The Minister refers to a Family Planning poster that bears the slogan “In Planning, men can also be pregnant.” One drawing depicts a transgender man (ie, biologically born female and whose gender identity is male) during his pregnancy.
This message was strongly criticized on social networks, in particular by voices from the right or extreme right. RN deputy Laure Lavalette thus lambasted the “archi-subsidized activists who only seek to spread their grotesque and false ideology”, while Laurence Trochu (Reconquest!) denounced the “doctrines” of the association. “We don’t want it,” he wrote on Twitter, using the hashtag “#ProtegeonsNosEnfants.”
Denouncing “derivations” that “must be stopped”, the deputy (LR) Fabien Di Filippo considered for his part that Family Planning “moves away from science to turn to the most questionable ideological activism”.
A legal action not excluded by the association.
In response, the feminist association denounced in a press release a “campaign of denigration behind the back of gender minorities”, and indicated that it is studying possible legal actions against “instigators of hatred, who are sometimes elected officials of the Republic”. . .
On the merits, Family Planning stressed that it practiced an “unconditional” welcome. Some trans people “seek advice on contraception, abortion, medical follow-up for their transition,” and “it’s up to us to make them feel welcome,” she added.
Source: BFM TV
