Fault confessed, half forgiven, as the saying goes. François Ruffin admitted to having made a mistake, Thursday, June 1, on the set of France Info, when he set aside priorities a law on gender change in the name of "appeasement". "My answer on gender, it's wrong. I should have recalled the obvious, "he admitted on Friday on his Twitter account.
The deputy and potential candidate for the 2027 presidential election was asked about the lessons to be learned from the slap received in the Spanish local elections by the left-wing Podemos party, which worked for a law allowing free sex change at 16 without parental consent. In "a deeply fractured society in France", "we need appeasement, stability, we must rebuild bridges, repair the fractures and not deepen them further, we should not do everything that comes to mind he replied.
Criticized by some of his Rebellious colleagues, he therefore made his mea culpa and wished to recall "these obvious": "the condemnation of the attack on the LGBT center in Tours by the far right"; the "lives wounded by humiliation"; "guarantee equal access to school, employment, housing".
Hi everyone, Yesterday morning, as soon as I left the set of France info, I said to my collaborators: “My answer on the genre, it's not going well. I should have remembered the obvious. »
The Twitter account "Le coin des LGBT" had reacted strongly: "François Ruffin does not want a law making it easier to change his gender designation because it takes 'appeasement' for his party to come to power. »
For her part, Sophia Chikirou, LFI deputy, close to Jean-Luc Mélenchon, replied: “This is in no way a position of La France insoumise or of the parliamentary group. This statement, on this day, is at best clumsy, at worst a political mistake. His colleague Antoine Léaument also regretted "a personal opinion which does not commit the movement", referring to the LFI program which plans to authorize the change of gender in civil status.
"My answer on gender, it's not right," said the elected official of the Somme on Twitter. “From civil unions to marriage for all, French society has made progress on the rights of LGBT people. She's ripe to do it again, to fill in the gaps, I'm sure of that," he added.
