The Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to ban so-called gender reassignment therapy.
About thirty LR senators, including four elected from Pays-de-la-Loire, opposed the text.
The Senate passed a bill by a large majority on Tuesday to ban so-called conversion therapy.
Practiced by therapists, hypnotists or religious, these unfounded and disparaged methods claim to "cure" homosexuality.
These actions will now be punished by two years' imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros, or even more in the event of aggravating circumstances, especially when the victim is a minor.
In the hemicycle, only 28 senators opposed the text (305 approved it).
📢 The Senate adopted the bill prohibiting practices aimed at modifying a person's sexual orientation or gender identity.
👉 The results of the poll:
305 for âś…
28 against ❌
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- Senate (@Senat) December 7, 2021
Among these discordant votes, four elected LR from Pays-de-la-Loire: Bruno Retailleau (Vendée), Laurence Garnier (Loire-Atlantique), Stéphane Piednoir (Maine-et-Loire) and Louis-Jean de Nicolaÿ (Sarthe).
All four have since been the target of numerous criticisms on social networks, calling them "reactionary", "homophobic" or "senators of shame".
Clash at the regional council
So much so that the Nantes native Laurence Garnier, head of the Nantes municipal opposition, felt obliged to justify herself publicly on Wednesday. “I personally know the suffering of homosexual and transgender people. I respect these people very much and I consider that this debate deserves better than insults and insults on social networks, ”she began in a statement. She then puts forward three arguments. "These conversion therapies are all already explicitly punished by law, by the offenses of abuse of weakness, violence, illegal practice of medicine, fraud (...) This text has, in fact, no legal significance. "
She continues: “The text of the law could have been an opportunity to protect minors from engaging in a final and irreversible sex change process.
But my colleague Jacqueline Eustache-Brinio's amendment aimed at banning sex reassignment operations and treatments on children under the age of 18 was rejected.
"Finally," I have been alerted many times and have received many messages from transgender people opposing the vote on this text which did not seem to be unanimous, "she concludes.
This controversial vote also resulted on Wednesday in a pass of arms within the regional council of Pays-de-la-Loire between Guillaume Garot, leader of the Socialists, and the president, Christelle Morancais (LR).
The first has
demanded at the second that it
“
dissociate itself” publicly and that it affirms “that homosexuality is not a disease to be cured
”.
Indignant, Christelle Morancais retorted that these words were "an insult, a spitting, an injury".
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