French activist could face prison time for criticizing gender ideology

A French feminist commentator faces jail time for criticizing men using female spaces such as locker rooms and bathrooms.

The commentator has already been sanctioned for referring to a gender-confused male as a “man,” but the looming sentence is now drawing condemnation from a United Nations official.

In 2022, Dora Moutot referred to a “transgender” mayor named “Marie” Cau as a man. Cau’s real name is Nicholas. He is the mayor of a small French town.

Moutot made the comments to Cau’s face during a political debate about gender identity issues. She specifically said some men could abuse laws on gender ideology to harass or otherwise cause problems for women.

As Reduxx previously reported, a journalist “asked Moutot whether she regarded the mayor as a woman, to which Moutot replied, ‘To me, Marie Cau is a man.’”

“A  statement released by (an LGBT group) Mousse accused Moutot of ‘violently attacking’ Cau by calling him both a man, and a ‘transfeminine man,'” Reduxx reported at the time.

Moutot has already been fined nearly 5,000 euros for her comments. However, she now faces “six more criminal complaints” that could include up to one year in prison for her and a colleague, according to new comments made for The Free Press.

The feminist said the latest criminal threat came after she made similar comments about the safety of women.

She said:

These new charges target specific statements we made on social media and on our feminist blog and YouTube channel Femelliste. They include our opinion that ‘men’ were ‘demanding access to our spaces’ and the question: ‘On what grounds should trans women’s fear of being mocked in men’s toilets take precedence over women’s fear of being raped?’”

Ironically, Moutot said there has been no investigations into the people threatening her for her comments.

The current and potential sanctions against Moutot constitute a human rights violation, according to a United Nations official.