Trystan Reese was watching a French talk show on which heād recently appeared as a guest when the following words crept onto the screen, directly below his image: āLe maman est Ć la gauche.ā His French was rusty, but hours of Duolingo lessons werenāt required to get the gist: Trystan, a trans father of three, had just been called a āmotherā on Salut les Terriens!, a popular French television program reaching 1.5 million viewers per episode.