Emergency! French Women in Danger

On Friday, January 30th, the conservative media outlet Boulevard Voltaire hosted a major conference dedicated to women in Paris, entitled Urgences: Françaises en danger (Emergencies: French Women in Danger).

This was the first time that the right wing had organised an event on this hot-button issue, addressing it from all angles—whereas it is traditionally preempted by the Left. europeanconservative.com was there and offers you a summary of the evening.

The Left’s obsession with defending women’s rights tends to reduce their suffering and interests to a few symbolic issues, to the exclusion of any other questions: contraception and abortion; parity in the public sphere and in access to positions of responsibility; liberation from the grip of a largely fantasised ‘patriarchy.’ These are ideological positions that have little bearing on the daily reality of women in 2026. Contraception, which is freely available and reimbursed by social security, is not socially contested; abortion, also covered by public funds, has been on the rise in France for several years. As for issues of gender equality, they seem like a luxury concern when so many women are assaulted, raped, or struggle to raise their children. And what can be said about the existence of ‘the patriarchy’ in a society that has for decades shattered any notion of authority and masculinity, and which continues to vilify the figure of the white male, now stripped of all pride and dignity and perceived as public enemy number one?

The conference therefore sought to invite listeners to return to reality through a series of roundtables organised around the major ills—the real ones—suffered by women in France today: impoverishment, erasure, brutalisation, and enslavement.

The section devoted to impoverishment highlighted the extreme vulnerability of women in a world that values women’s work as a factor of equality or social revenge while failing to give due consideration to the domestic work devoted to family life and the education of children, from which society benefits. Ludovine de la Rochère, president of the Family Union, highlighted the paradox of public policies that focus on single-parent families headed by women, who are massively affected by poverty, without supporting traditional families—even though the stability of couples and the strength of traditional family ties are the best guarantees for maintaining families’ standard of living.

The debates of recent months on pension reform have completely sacrificed women, in particular mothers, who are the eternal losers in a system that despises them and considers that their choices, made for the benefit of future generations, place them on the side of the nobodies. When women reach retirement age, having raised children brings neither moral gratification nor substantial financial compensation—a paradox for a system such as the French pay-as-you-go system, whose viability is only possible with a minimum of demographic dynamism.

The discussion on erasure was intended to draw attention to crucial issues that are often overlooked by the public and confined to a few activist circles: the transgender offensive and surrogacy.

While the mainstream press, the entertainment world, and the sports world readily showcase profiles of transgender men seeking to pass themselves off as women, the statistical reality is quite different. The majority of transition cases—70%—involve young women who are uncomfortable with their femininity and seek to drown their identity issues in a hypothetical and painful sex change. As evidence of this, the young American activist Chloe Cole, who detransitioned after taking hormones and undergoing a mastectomy as a teenager, spoke during her first tour of France. In the turmoil of adolescence, Chloe, under pressure from social media, came to believe that growing up and becoming a woman was a curse. This, combined with pressure from an unscrupulous medical profession driven by an invasive ideology, pushed her to commit the irreparable. The Parisian audience was particularly moved by her tragic story, which gave concrete reality to arguments put forward by essayists such as Marguerite Stern and Dora Moutot, but which still remain in the minds of many people in the realm of theory and conceptual speculation.

Olivia Maurel, spokeswoman for the Casablanca Declaration for the universal abolition of surrogacy, was there to testify to the trauma of taking a baby away from its biological mother to satisfy the whims of couples—both heterosexual and homosexual—who want a child, to the detriment of that child, who is perceived as a commodity to be acquired.

Transgenderism and surrogacy are two sides of the same coin. In both cases, it is the woman herself, a flesh-and-blood reality, who disappears as if she were nothing more than a temporary accessory in the great cycle of life, transformable, modifiable, and even disposable. Sex change erases the biological reality of women; surrogacy denies the first characteristic of femininity, namely motherhood. On social media, narratives are constructed and promoted as progress against women, without them. Women are no longer needed, since in sports competitions, men on hormones can replace them. There is no longer any need for women, since a baby, as soon as it is born, can be placed on a man’s skin, disregarding its most animalistic and basic needs.

The debate on brutalisation has brought to mind the dramatic figures on insecurity and immigration, just published by the Interior Ministry, of which women are the first victims: they are the ones on the front line when it comes to street violence or sexual violence. Women today are followed, assaulted, raped, and forced every day to adapt their lifestyle, their journeys, their attire in public spaces if they do not want to take unnecessary risks. Curiously, left-wing feminists have no desire to tackle this harsh reality head-on, according to the diagnosis of Pierre-Marie Sève, director of the Institute for Justice, because of the hierarchy of victimisation they have established. The universal culprit is the white, middle-class man. Guilt will always lie with him, according to an ultra-feminised judiciary that has no intention of questioning its interpretative framework. Anything that weakens the white patriarchy, in infinite terms, serves the cause of women. The promotion of immigration and the celebration of immigrants’ alternative cultures as opposed to the European, white, and Christian model must take precedence over all other considerations.

This terrible observation was also shared by essayist Julien Rochedy and anthropologist Fadila Maaroufi, who were alarmed by the blindness of mainstream feminism to the responsibility of Islam and Muslim culture in the deterioration of the lives of French women—women whom once mediaeval Western civilisation elevated to the pinnacle in its celebration of courtly love. With humour, Rochedy recalled this common-sense truth: ultimately, there is nothing better than a white male to protect Western women!

The merit of Boulevard Voltaire is that it has not ignored any of the challenges facing women today—challenges that threaten their very essence.

The highlight of the evening was the speeches by four women representing the four movements that make up the French right today: Marion Maréchal, MEP and president of the conservative party Identité-Libertés; Claire Géronimi, vice-president of the Union des Droites pour la République, rape victim and founder of an association that helps victims of assault; Edwige Diaz, MP for the Rassemblement National; and Sarah Knafo, MEP for the Reconquête party and candidate for mayor of Paris. It was heartening to see a concrete form of unity among the right-wing parties on the podium, with these combative figures coming together around the essential values of women’s dignity, the transmission of life, and the defence of a Christian and deeply rooted French identity. Now it is up to the men to do so as well!