Karla Sofia Gascón has filed a criticism with the Paris Public Prosecutor towards French far-right chief Marion Maréchal-Le Pen for transphobic feedback the politician posted on social media following her Finest Actress win on the Cannes Movie Pageant over the weekend.
Gascón made historical past on Saturday as the primary transgender actress to win the Cannes Finest Actress prize alongside co-stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz for his or her performances in Jacques Audiard’s gangster musical Emilia Perez.
Responding to the win on X, Maréchal Le Pen wrote: “So a person has gained the Finest Actress prize… progress for the left is the erasure of ladies and moms.”
Gascón’s criticism is for “sexist contempt associated to gender identification”. The offence carries a $4,066 (3,750 euros) effective.
In a press release, Gascón’s lawyer Etienne Deshoulières defined the offence had been launched into France’s Legal Code in April 2023 to fight “offensive and humiliating remarks aimed toward transgender girls, comparable to misgendering”.
Gascón’s authorized stand follows scorching on the heels of a criticism filed on Monday towards Maréchal-Le Pen by six French LGBT+ teams for the offence of “insult resulting from gender identification”, which is punishable by a most one yr jail sentence and a effective of $48,000 (45,000 euros).
Deshoulières counsel Gascón’s separate submitting added weight to the authorized motion.
“Solely the individual focused by the feedback can act on this foundation,” he mentioned. “It was due to this fact needed for Karla Sofia Gascón to behave alongside the LGBT+ associations to sentence Marion Maréchal for sexist comtempt resulting from gender identification.”
Maréchal Le Pen dismissed the primary submitting in an interview with French radio station France Inter on Tuesday saying she wouldn’t be “intimidated by authorized threats from LGBT militant-activists”.