Matthias Renault, member of the National Rally (RN) from Somme, believes that Trans Musicales, the famous Rennes festival, is dedicated to the “music by transgender artists”. Behind this ridiculous blunder, his other amendments reveal the RN’s very serious ambition: to attack funding for various programs around LGBTQI+ topics…
An amendment can hide many others. As noted by Le Canard enchaîné, the deputy Matthias Renault, elected under the colors of the National Rally (RN) in Somme (Picardy), drafted an amendment in which he attacks public funding for the associative sector, taking as an example the Trans musicale association, which organizes the Rencontres du même nom in Rennes. Apparently struck by a Pavlovian reflex as soon as he hears the word “trans,” the deputy accuses it of being “known for organizing festivals of music by transgender artists”. A position that is amusing since this eclectic music festival has nothing to do with transgender people: its name, as the weekly reminds, refers to a jazz record released in 1978. But behind this amendment, ultimately withdrawn, lies the RN’s program: to attack various funding related to LGBTQI+ topics.
“In a context of tight budgets, it appears abnormal that the taxpayer finances such amounts for leisure associations, when these are not even ideological and militant structures”, argues Matthias Renault to justify a cut of about 82.7 million euros just in the artistic creation sector, and this out of a total of 3.2 billion euros that, according to the explanatory memorandum of this amendment, the RN intends to cut from public funding of the associative sector. This invites us to read the other amendments of the parliamentarian…
Cinéma LGBT, “pink washing”…
In this hunt for funds carried out in the name of the RN, one quickly perceives the coherence of the targets chosen by Matthias Renault. The deputy thus seeks to reduce by 24.2 million euros the program “Coordination of Governmental Work,” which finances, among other things, the fight against anti-LGBT hatred (DILCRAH): the parliamentarian accuses it of having “for example subsidized the Écrans mixtes association for organizing the LGBT film festival in Lyon”. At the RN, they do not eat this bread.
But Marine Le Pen’s party does not only go after queer culture. With the RN, they would also roll back trainings against sexism and LGBTphobias in administrations: Matthias Renault proposes to withdraw one million euros from the Cour des comptes for having called upon Caroline De Haas’s company, Egaé, which provides trainings on gender equality, the fight against discrimination, diversity and the prevention of sexist and sexual violence. “That private companies, with their own funds, choose to do ‘pink washing’ is one thing. That prestigious public institutions use taxpayers’ money to offer this type of training as ideological and useless as it is another”, he writes in this amendment, also withdrawn.
Même logique appliquée à l’école : le député de la Somme veut raboter de 15,46 millions d’euros le financement des interventions d’associations de sensibilisation, notamment à l’homophobie ou aux stéréotypes de genre. Ainsi du programme “Vie de l’élève”, “principal programme financeur des interventions d’associations idéologiques à l’école, comme le Centre francilien de ressources pour l’égalité femmes-hommes intervenant en milieu scolaire pour organiser des ateliers autour des stéréotypes de genre”. En fouillant un peu plus, on trouve encore un amendement pour alléger de 576.240 euros la mission interministérielle de lutte contre les drogues et les conduites addictives (Midelca), ce qui impacterait notamment la prévention autour du chemsex… Bref, tout un programme pour le RN.
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