Liège Pride has decided not to renew its media partnership with Tipik for the second edition of Liège Pride in 2025.This kind of sketch has concrete effects on young people in schoolyards for example. It gives the impression that everything is permitted”justified the organization.
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The Higher Audiovisual Council (CSA) has received a number of “exceptional” of complaints.We were massively alerted. On Monday, we hads already received more than 200 complaints. Since then, it has only increased. We have not yet had time to count them all”we are told.
The CSA regularly receives complaints on societal issues or identity-related themes. The Bye-Bye Belgium show in 2006 caused many alerts. More recently, the inappropriate comments of a radio host about travellers also generated many reactions. But this is the first time that the regulator has been so alerted on the subject of transidentity.
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An explanation is to be found on the side of the Prisme Federation. For the association which defends the rights of LGBTQIA + people, the choice of words used in the parody broadcast on Tipik does not “that reinforces the idea that gender identities outside the binary spectrum are absurd”The Federation recalls that “LGBTQIA+ rights are under constant attack”. The media, actors, and public figures have an important role to play in avoiding reinforcing the stigmatization of these marginalized groups. In the eyes of the Federation, the opposite happened on September 19.
The CSA has decided to open an investigation. It is examining the content of the sequence to assess whether it could be condemned. We are still far from the sanction stage. Several stakeholders will be consulted, such as the Institute for the Equality of Women and Men (IEFH). RTBF will also have the opportunity to defend itself. It is at the end of a long procedure that the CSA will be able to determine whether a grievance has been established. It is only in this case that the authority could decide on a sanction, which ranges from a warning to a fine, or even the reading of a press release on air.
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