Retailleau will have to fight against discrimination against gender minorities

An “astonishing” attribution, underlines Pierre Januel, parliamentary journalist. It was he who spotted the decree granting the missions of the new Minister of the Interior, published on October 10. Some of these objectives attributed to Bruno Retailleau, new tenant of Beauvau, may be surprising given his different positions on the subjects of gender or marriage for all.

According to this text, the former leader of the Les Républicains senators is in fact responsible, as Minister of the Interior, for fighting “against discrimination based on sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as against people intersex”.

A reactionary view of gender issues

The former Vendée elected official had nevertheless voted against the ban on conversion therapies which claim to “cure” homosexuality in 2021. He then defended himself to France 3 Pays-de-la-Loire, justifying his vote with a question of vocabulary, more precisely around the notion of “gender identity”.

A “fuzzy notion, according to Bruno Retailleau, who comes to us from the United States, and who claims that there is no sexual identity but that we are a man and a woman based on our “feelings”. I do not believe that the role of a parliamentarian is to legislate on the “feelings” of people.”

The new minister in the Barnier government also marched under the blue and pink flags of the Manif pour tous to oppose the opening of marriage to homosexual couples in 2012. He will nevertheless now have to fight against discrimination against LGBTQ+ minorities. As long as he hears them.