The association believes that the Minister Delegate for the Fight against Discrimination and the new Minister for Solidarity “have opposed equal rights in the recent past”, in particular rights for trans people.
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“A Bad Signal”, believes SOS Homophobia. The support association for victims of LGBTIphobia is concerned in a press release, published on Friday July 21, about the appointment of Aurore Bergé and Bérangère Couillard in the new government. SOS Homophobia criticizes these two new ministers for opposing “to equal rights in the recent past”particularly concerning rights for trans people.
Aurore Bergé, who has just taken the post of Minister of Solidarity and Families, had tabled an amendment to exclude trans men from the right to perform an abortion, during the examination of the proposed constitutional law, recalls the association. As for Bérangère Couillard, the former Secretary of State who became Minister Delegate in charge of Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination, “opposed in 2020 the integration of same-sex couples in a bill against domestic violence, which she carried in the name of the presidential majority”details the press release.
After recalling the context of the increase in anti-LGBTI hate speech and acts in French society, SOS homophobia “calls on the newly appointed Government to reaffirm its commitment to the fight against hatred of LGBTI people”. In particular, the association would like the law to be changed to allow “the diversion of the civil status gender change procedure for trans people”.