A poster that makes the far right talk.
Family Planning, an organization in charge of sex education and access to abortion, says it is the victim this Friday of an online harassment campaign.
The reason ?
Dissemination of campaign posters evoking the possibility for transgender men to become pregnant or menstruate.
⚠️ 🗣 Following the far-right attacks suffered by @leplanning and its activists our association takes the floor and calls for support ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/ggSCZtHRuE
– Family Planning (@leplanning) August 19, 2022
The association, “its activists and its leaders have been the object of an extremely violent attack since August 18, 2022 on Twitter and other social networks, from far-right personalities and their sympathizers. es”, describes Family Planning in a statement released in the afternoon.
"These attacks take the pretext of a poster presenting a trans person to call for our desubsidization, to question our legitimacy as an association for the defense of women's rights and the fight for the right to abortion", denounces the organization .
The 3th poster of the series that I had the honor of making for the #PlanningFamily🥰
The PF is: tools to better know your body, contraception, abortion, sexual health.. without judgment or discrimination.
In an increasingly conservative world the PF is vital for everyone pic.twitter.com/NWRjB49mEq
— LaurierTheFox #StopMutilationsIntersexe (@Laurier_the_Fox) August 17, 2022
The poster in question shows a transgender and pregnant man, accompanied by the slogan “At Family Planning, we also know that men can be pregnant”.
“A disturbing drift”
A campaign particularly badly received in the sphere of the extreme right.
“The “inclusive” Booklet which “is aimed at both paid and non-paid people” was supported by a grant from the Department (your taxes!);
all this pisses me off!
“Reacted MEP Gilbert Collard, former National Rally (RN) and now a member of Reconquest, the party of Éric Zemmour.
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“#FamilyPlanning is moving further and further away from its original mission to become a conduit for gender theory activists.
A worrying drift, especially when we know that it is empowered to intervene in our schools, including with minor students, ”commented RN MEP Thierry Mariani.
Feminist activist Marguerite Stern, known for her outings deemed transphobic, for her part assured that "Family Planning" was becoming a "danger for women".
Full support for family planning in the face of these hateful attacks @leplanning @RemiFeraud @egregoire @dassouline https://t.co/t2kwU18BW0
— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) August 19, 2022
The outcry against Family Planning also triggered a wave of support on the left, in particular from the PS mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who castigated "hate attacks".
The EELV party condemned "firmly the transphobic cyberbullying that targets Family Planning" as well as the artist behind the information campaign.
Family Planning claims to be consulting its "legal advice to prosecute" the personalities behind the tweets and reactions deemed transphobic.
"Sexual and reproductive rights are a whole: at Planning we do not prioritize them", defends the association.
