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French cartoonists are in trouble again: Le Monde, which defended the right to offend Islam, is more ‘Anglo-Saxon’ on the transgender issue

Rough translation – If I have been abused by the adopted half-brother of my transgender father’s partner who has become my mother, is it incest?

The freedom of a satirical cartoonist to satirise has limits even in France, it appears. The best-known, and best, French daily newspaper, Le Monde, this week bowed to some of its readers — and infuriated others — by apologising for a website cartoon which, it said, “could be interpreted” as an insult to transgender people and a “minimisation” of incest.

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