“Slightly negative ideas”: this look that Karine Le Marchand had on transidentity

An evening event… Thursday October 6, 2022, M6 will broadcast the documentary Trans: one of a kind, produced by Karine Le Marchand. In it, viewers will discover the journeys of three women, Emma (63 years old), Aéla (34 years old), and Zach, (18 years old). Invited on the set of C à vous, on France 5, Friday September 30, 2022, the host explained how she had had the idea of ​​talking about this social phenomenon. “Because I didn’t know anything about it“, she let go, before developing: “I probably surprised myself to have somewhat negative ideas. I saw the Kardashians, with the father becoming a wife and all that, and I thought to myself, it’s a fadit’s weird.“In full transparency, Karine Le Marchand added:”I said to myself: ‘Karine, you’re not tolerant, find out’, and I started to dig into this theme. I met people concerned, specialists, and I said we have to do a doc because we are really far from the mark.“

Committed, the host explained on the set: “Today, in every high school, a student says they are transgender. It is a social phenomenon: we therefore gave the floor to specialists so that they could explain to the parents how they can act in this situation.“While gender change is very complicated, Karine Le Marchand said:”There is always a more or less long time between the beginning of the treatment, of the transition, and the end, at the level of the papers. Not only the name change, but the gender change. That’s complicated, and for a very long time it was really the cross and the banner for the people concerned to obtain this change of birth gender.” After having felt that lawmakers did not want to comment on many thingsshe added:Until 2016 – France was condemned by human rights – we forced transgender people to prove their sterilization and if they did not prove it, we could not change gender.“

A long-awaited documentary

On Wednesday September 14, 2022, in an interview with Pure Media, Karine Le Marchand said: “We have Emma, ​​who didn’t allow herself to be herself at all for more than 50 years, Aéla, who suffered a lot and waited until the age of thirty to pass the course and Zach, who doesn’t know not even ask the question of the acceptance of his family.” On Instagram, the trailer for Trans: one of a kind, elicited many reactions. It can thus be read:You can be proud… Your commitment and your convictions are good for the audiovisual landscape!“; “Delicate, sensitive subject, but how important… This is the fight of the next few years… Let’s love each other!” ; but also : “Awesome, I can’t wait!“