“I want to be a woman. From now on you will call me Loretta.” We are in 1979, in one scene life of brian Monty Pythons. The iconic line is followed by flawlessly delicious dialogue (“I want to have children.” – “But you can’t have children.” – “Stop pressuring me”). which ends in a delicious and predictable exchange; “Fighting for her right to have children when she cannot have them is a symbol of her struggle against our oppression” – “It is above all a symbol of her struggle against reality.”Half a century later, on the set of France Télévisions, “Quelle époque!” broadcast, the atmosphere is no longer one of laughter. Journalist and feminist activist Dora Mouto debates France’s first transgender mayor, Marie Cau, that is, an individual who was born male but became (at least administratively) female. It’s the year 2022, and we’ve just noted that a man who decides, like Mary Cow, to change his gender…
Source: Le Figaro
