his new project is already causing a scandal

After Operation Renaissance, she announces her new show project: Transgenre, which aims to change the way people look at what / those they don't know. His position seems questionable in view of his previous shows.

Karine Lemarchand, a well-known host for her show L’Amour est dans le Pré, provoked an outcry against her program Opération Renaissance, which followed obese people on a weight loss journey. Critics of this show from those involved were harsh about the reality TV production ecosystem and the show's message, fraught with harmful clichés. The show was stopped mid-air.
Potiche Prod, Karine Lemarchand’s company, has announced the release of a new project called “Transgenre”. In doing so, raising new concerns about the way people look and the message conveyed on the still little-known question of transidentity.

Serious concerns about how to tell

The host advocates kindness and tolerance for this new show. Leitmotifs that were already claimed for the program Operation Renaissance. Concerns are therefore acute among those who are potentially the most affected by this program: the people concerned.
Right from the comments under her post, to someone who is worried about the potential misfires * of the people filmed, the host replies that she will do the best… and "fuck the political correctness." However, it is not a question here of political correctness but rather of precisely representing minority and strongly discriminated identities.

This is particularly denounced by the activist account out_ragee, which writes : "No one has seen this show yet, and I will support with all my might the 3 people who agreed to participate.
But changing “people's outlook” on people discriminated against in our society means above all letting them express themselves, creating their own documentaries, their own programs, in order to reclaim their stories and their identities, without one privileged cishet * chick come and whine over their shoulder.
You are not legitimate Karine, and you will never be, whatever you come to tell on the TV sets, our identities belong to us and we alone. Are able to expose them "

If one wishes to be interested in these questions, it is preferable to rely on documentation produced by experts: the people concerned, that is to say here transgender people. There is the documentary of Ocean, which tells of his transition "FTM" that is to say to a human body. In it, she tells about her joys, the difficulties she experienced and the reactions (sometimes violent) of those close to her.

There is also the work of Lexie, a trans woman activist who explains in a very educational way the vocabulary to talk about this complex subject. She has released “Une histoire de genres”, a book that explains and educates on gender issues.
These people are already documenting abundantly and with great pedagogy a phenomenon that they have experienced from the inside. Why not listen to them and put them in the spotlight, Karine?

LEXICON:
– mégenrage: action of designating a person by a gender that does not correspond to his gender identity. It can be intentional or accidental
– cishet: cisgender and heterosexual: cisgender means to recognize oneself in the gender identity that we were assigned at birth.

Mathilde Wattecamps

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