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フラン's lower house passes a 法案 banning hair 差別. It now goes to the 上院

Published: 09:04 BST, 28 March 2024 | Updated: 14:05 BST, 28 March 2024

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PARIS (AP) - 国会議員s in フラン's lower house of 議会 on Thursday 認可するd a 法案 that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair.

The 法案's authors hope the groundbreaking 法案 sends a message of support to 黒人／ボイコット people and others who have 直面するd 敵意 in the workplace and beyond because of their hair.

But the 手段 still 直面するs a long road ahead. It goes to the 上院 next, where it could 直面する対立.

While only 50 of the 国家の議会´s 577 国会議員s were on 手渡す for the 投票（する）, they 圧倒的に支援するd the 法案 in a 44-2 投票（する）. There were four 棄権s.

支持者s of the 手段 outside 議会 were overjoyed that the 法案 made it to the 法律を制定する団体／死体.

"It's about time," exclaimed Estelle Vallois, a 43-year-old 顧問 getting her short, coiled hair 削減（する） in a Paris salon, where the hairdressers are trained to 扱う all types of hair - a rarity in フラン. "Today, we´re going even その上の toward taking 負かす／撃墜する these 障壁s of 差別."

A 顧客 has his hair shampooed in a hairdressing salon, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The 草案法律 echoes 類似の法律制定 in more than 20 U.S. 明言する／公表するs. The 法案 was 提案するd by Olivier Serva, a French 国会議員 from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. He says that if it 結局 becomes 法律, it would make フラン the first country in the world to 認める差別 based on hair at a 国家の level.

"This is a 広大な／多数の／重要な step 今後 for our country," Serva said after the 投票（する）. "フラン has done itself proud."

The 法案 would 修正する存在するing anti-差別対策 in the labor code and 犯罪の code to explicitly 無法者差別 against people with curly and coiled hair or other hairstyles perceived as unprofessional, 同様に as bald people. It doesn't 特に的 race-based 差別, though that was the 最初の／主要な動機づけ for the 法案.

"People who don´t fit in Eurocentric 基準s are 直面するing 差別, stereotypes and bias," Serva, who is 黒人／ボイコット, told The Associated 圧力（をかける）.

左派の（人） parties and members of 大統領 Emmanuel Macron´s 中道派（の） party Renaissance have supported the 法案, which was enough to get it through the 国家の議会. The 法案 is now 長，率いるd for the 保守的な-支配するd 上院, where it will likely 直面する対立 from 右翼 and far-権利国会議員s who see it as an 成果／努力 to 輸入する U.S. 概念s about race and racial 差別 to フラン.

In the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, 24 明言する／公表するs have 可決する・採択するd a 見解／翻訳／版 of the CROWN 行為／法令／行動する - which stands for Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair - banning race-based hair 差別 in 雇用, 住宅, schools and in the 軍の. U.S. 連邦の法律制定 passed in the House in 2022, but 上院共和国の／共和党のs 封鎖するd it a month later.

対抗者s of the French 法案 say フラン´s 合法的な枠組み already 申し込む／申し出s enough 保護 to people 直面するing 差別 over their natural Afro hair, braids, cornrows or locs.

Authors of the 法案同意しない. One example they 特記する／引用する is a 黒人／ボイコット French flight attendant who 告訴するd 空気／公表するフラン after he was 否定するd 接近 to a flight because of his braids and was coerced into wearing a wig with straight hair. Aboubakar Traor? won his 事例／患者 in 2022 after a １０年間-long 司法の戦う／戦い. But the 法廷，裁判所支配するd that he wasn't 差別するd against over his hair, but because he is a man, since his 女性（の）相当するものs were 許すd to wear braids.

フラン doesn't collect 公式の／役人 data about race, because it follows a universalist 見通し that doesn� �t differentiate 国民s by 民族の groups, which makes it difficult to 手段 race-based hair 差別.

支持するs of the 法案 hope it 演説（する）／住所s 黒人／ボイコット French people's long struggle to embrace their natural hair.

Aude Livoreil-Djampou, a hairdresser and mother of three mixed-race children, said that while some people 見解（をとる） the 草案法律 as frivolous, it's about something deeper.

"It´s not only a hair 問題／発行する. It will give strength to people to be able to answer, when asked to straighten their hair, they can say: ´No, this is not 合法的な, you cannot 推定する／予想する that from me, it has nothing to do with my professional competence.'"

Djampou-Livoreil´s salon takes care of all 肉親，親類d of （弁護士の）依頼人s, from those with straight hair to those with tight curls.

"It´s very moving to have a 40-year-old woman, いつかs in a very high position, finally embracing her natural beauty. And it happens every day," she said.

Salon 顧客 Vallois hopes that her 5-year-old daughter will live in the 未来 in a society that doesn´t stigmatize their hair.

"When I was younger, I remember lamenting the 欠如（する） of salons and even hair 製品s (for frizzy hair) - there was a time when, unfortunately, we had to use 製品s designed for European hair and not adapted to our hair. I´m glad, today, that things are more accessible and there´s change," she said.

"There´s no 推論する／理由 to be ashamed of who you are, whether it´s your hair or even the fact that you don´t have any!"

French 副 of the 国家の議会, Olivier Serva is photographed during an interview with The Associated 圧力（をかける）, at the Nationial 議会, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A 顧客 waits for a hair 治療, in a hairdressing salon, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French 副 of the 国家の議会, Olivier Serva, centre, is photographed during an interview with The Associated 圧力（をかける）, at the Nationial 議会, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A 顧客 has her hair trimmed, in a hairdressing salon, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Hairdresser, Aude Livoreil-Djampou, 権利, laughs with one of the staff in her hairdressing salon, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Hair are on the 床に打ち倒す in a hairdressing salon, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

A 顧客 checks his hairstyle in a hairdressing salon, in Paris, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. French 国会議員s are 審議ing a 法案 Thursday that would 禁止（する）差別 over the texture, length, color or style of someone's hair. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)