Karla Sofia Gascón
Trans actress denounces right-wing politician
Following her award for best actress at the Cannes Film Festival, transsexual actress Karla Sofia Gascón has denounced French right-wing politician Marion Maréchal for a comment she made on X. In the post, Maréchal had criticized the fact that Gascón and her three co-actresses in the musical film "Emilia Perez" were awarded in the best actress category.
Marion Maréchal had written on X: "So now a man gets the prize for best actress in Cannes. For the left, progress means the erasure of women and mothers."
"We must stop such comments"
"We must stop such comments," Gascón was quoted as saying in a statement by her lawyer Etienne Deshoulières. He filed a complaint with the Paris public prosecutor's office on behalf of his client for "sexist insults based on gender identity".
In "Emilia Perez", Gascón plays a transsexual drug lord before and after his gender reassignment. The Spaniard dedicated her award in Cannes to "all trans people who suffer".
The 52-year-old Spaniard lived as a man until she was 46 years old, is married to a woman and has a daughter. During the festival, Gascón called for people like her not to be labeled.
Maréchal is Le Pen's niece
Marion Maréchal is at the top of the electoral list of the radical right-wing French party Reconquête! for the European elections in just over a week's time. The politician is the granddaughter of French Front National founder Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of right-wing populist Marine Le Pen from the successor party Rassemblement National (RN).
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