Protests Erupt in Paris Over Proposed Gender Transfer Law for Older Children

Paris –

Right wing senator in French he began to submit a draft law regarding it gender transfer for older children. Reacting against this development, protest demonstrations began in several cities.

Reported by AFP, Monday (6/5/2024), protesters, right-wing people in parliament, left-wingers, labor unions and young people were present at local time on Sunday (5/5).

More than 800 groups and figures launched a call for demonstrations, including the left-wing party France Unbowed (La France Insoumise) and the Socialist Party. According to the interior ministry, around 10,880 people demonstrated across France, including 2,500 in Paris.

Many of the demonstrators held banners and chanted, “Anti-patriarchy, anti-capitalism, solidarity with trans people around the world.”

“Now more than ever, there is an urgent need to protect the rights of all people at a time when ‘right-wing’ and ‘far-right’ politicians are attacking human rights trans people and spreading false information about children who identify as trans,” said the organizers of the show, without mentioning his name.

The protests followed a report by a right-wing Republican senator about transgender children. Trans rights groups say the report allows for a return to ‘conversion therapy’ – a claim the author denies. Based on the report, legislators drafted a bill that is expected to be debated on May 28.

Activists also denounced the latest book “Transmania”, which they called transphobic. The author denies the allegations and denounces them as an attempt at censorship. They say the book is an “exploration of the abuse of transgender identity”.

(dnu/dwia)