Emmanuel Macron “perhaps” was clumsy, recognizes Minister Aurore Bergé

Was Emmanuel Macron clumsy in calling“ubuesques” certain measures of the New Popular Front “like going to change sex at the town hall”? “Maybe”, reacts Aurore Bergé, Minister Delegate in charge of Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination, Friday June 21 on franceinfo. The president’s speech “shocked” associations defending the LGBT+ community who denounced “a political maneuver” to the character “transphobic”.

“We summarize because he has an immediate statement in front of the French who were questioning him but for me, what I see is that since 2017, there is no ambiguity about the fact that we have always been on the side of the rights of people, particularly LGBT+ people”says Aurore Bergé. “We advanced the rights of LGBT+ people, we guaranteed the opening of PMA to all women, a measure to which Marine Le Pen opposed with her vote”, she argues.

In its program for the early legislative elections of June 30 and July 7, the New Popular Front actually proposes to simplify the current procedure by authorizing “the free change of civil status in front of a civil status officer”. Aurore Bergé recognizes that there is “deadlines that deserve to be shortened” in the current procedure which requires that any request for change be made to a court. She considers it necessary “a homogenization” of the processing of files, noting “that depending on this or that court, the deadlines and the questions asked are not the same”. “There are things which are very infringing on the rights of individuals”deplores the minister who wants “continue to register” in the “dynamic” driven by Emmanuel Macron to “increase people’s rights”.