Gathering in front of the Lycée Fénelon in homage to Fouad.

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M.Libert / 20 Minutes

  • A 17-year-old transgender high school student committed suicide on Tuesday in her home in Lille.

  • Schooled at the Lycée Fenelon, she had an altercation in early December with a supervisor about her dress.

  • On social networks, the drama arouses a lot of emotion and a lot of untruths.

A drama and almost no certainty.

Tuesday, Fouad, a young transgender teenager educated at the Lycée Fénelon, in Lille, committed suicide in the home where she was staying.

A drama that aroused a lot of emotion in his comrades, as well as a runaway on social networks after the publication of a widely relayed tweet telling a very rough version of the story.

What we know for sure is that Fouad, 17, a young girl who was assigned a boy at birth, committed suicide on Tuesday evening in the home where she lived.

A police investigation was opened to try to determine the reasons which pushed this transgender teenager to end her life.

Among the elements that will be taken into account by the investigators, there is a video shot by the victim in the office of a supervisor at Lycée Fénelon on December 2.

In an aggressive tone, the supervisor reproaches her for coming to school in a skirt: “I understand your desire to be yourself […].

And all that, precisely, is made to accompany you as well as possible.

That's what you don't understand.

Because there are sensitivities that are not the same, at different ages ”, we can hear.

FAKE OFF

According to several of her high school friends, the teenager posted the video on Snapchat on the day of the incident.

The footage then reappeared on Twitter after his death, inducing a cause and effect relationship.

There is no evidence at this stage to confirm this.

A Twitter thread, shared nearly 8,000 times, notably assured that Fouad had been excluded from a course and then from high school because of his behavior.

“The supervisor came to pick her up in the yard to take her to her office.

But she was not excluded, she left high school on her own because she was angry and wanted to calm down, ”assure Annabelle and Safina, two of her friends.

It also appeared that the author of the thread "did not know Fouad personally".

This trans high school girl committed suicide.

she was barely 17 years old.


She was fired because of her outfit because she was wearing a skirt.


This is acts sound inadmissible and cannot remain silent.

(here is a video she made at the CPE office) #JusticePourFouad pic.twitter.com/0yzBCGgbbo

- JUSTINE (@JustineBmnn) December 17, 2020

It is also false to say that the principal forbade the young girl to return to high school in a skirt, before changing her mind several days later.

“In the wake of the altercation with the CPE, there was a mediation with Fouad, his referent at the home and the management of the school.

Three hours after the incident, Fouad was allowed to return to school dressed as she wanted, ”insist Annabelle and Safina.

"We may never know"

Several of her comrades report that the young woman experienced the altercation with the CPE "as a humiliation".

But, in the days which followed this event, many pupils gave their support, by putting up posters in the school or by organizing a "day of the skirt".

"In the end, it was a victory for Fouad," say his relatives.

For many high school students present in front of Fénelon this Friday, the establishment cannot be qualified as transphobic.

All stress the tolerance of teachers and students.

"It would still be necessary for the National Education to train teachers on this subject, to correctly gender a person, for example," says Zya, a terminal student.

“We can not say anything about the reasons for Fouad's gesture, recognizes Annabelle.

She also had family and personal issues.

We may never know what the trigger was ”.

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