No you’re the sexist insult

Man sues politician for calling man a man:

The first transgender woman [aka man] to be awarded the best actress prize at the Cannes film festival filed a legal complaint on Wednesday over a “sexist insult” from a far-right politician after her win.

It’s not a sexist insult to call a man a man.

Karla Sofía Gascón and co-stars jointly received the accolade on Saturday for their performances in French auteur Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set narco musical Emilia Perez.

In the film, the 52-year-old Spanish actor – who lived as a man until she was 46 – plays a Mexican drug trafficker both before and after gender reassignment surgery.

After her win, French far-right politician Marion Maréchal, granddaughter of National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, posted on X: “So a man has won best actress. Progress for the left means the erasure of women and mothers.”

Say “far right” all you want, but it’s still true that a man won best actress.

Gascón, through her lawyer, told AFP: “We need to stop such comments.” Her lawyer Etienne Deshoulières said she had filed a legal complaint for “sexist insult on the basis of gender identity”.

We need to stop such legal complaints.

Gascón, who has a wife and daughter, dedicated her win in Cannes to “all the trans people who are suffering”.

He has a daughter, does he? And what was his contribution to the making of that daughter? It wasn’t the egg, so…

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