Transgender culture war grips France (14/03/23)

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From today’s Times:

Transgender culture war grips France.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4418b922-c1da-11ed-89bb-9ee8b04f3f4c?shareToken=f3fd3b70dc02c7691a72c2b78c43a862

The French excel nationally at “not having it” if they are pushed to take up something they are not on board with. You only have to look at the way they approach industrial action to see their level of determination to stand firm. One to watch.

Another recent article from late February with background on the debate at government level:

Macron’s equality minister faces revolt over trans policy.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7888ebaa-b67c-11ed-a513-158bcb2665eb?shareToken=32c7173c898f4faf5b3f6da8f2835465

Glad the French are standing up to this nonsense.

I wonder if their academy will stand up against the removal of language meanings?

Anglo-Saxon feminist and transgender activism is threatening France, a leading French columnist has warned.

Eugénie Bastié, 31, has angered leftwingers with an essay, Sauver la Différence des Sexes (Save the Difference Between the Sexes), in which she argues against the arrival in France of British and American theories she says involve a “totalitarian” cancel culture and the negation of biological realities

I thought we were TERF Island?

We are! It's probably some backlash for blaming Foucault for Queer Theory!

Is he not responsible then?

The crisis came to a head when Rome agreed to disband Dilcrah’s scientific council, which was made up of researchers, historians, political analysts and sociologists who fell out over the issue of medical treatments for gender dysphoria being made available to young people.

Shocked, I am, just shocked, that that a scientific council would take issue with gender ideology!

As far as I know, he was a massive influence on it.