The blow was delivered by the Minister of Academic Success and Vocational Training, Alexandre Portier. Questioned, on Wednesday, November 27, during a government interrogation, by the senator of the Républicains des Pyrénées-Atlantiques Max Brisson, one of his closest friends, about the first draft of an education program for emotional life, relationships and sexuality, the minister considered that this text ” It is not acceptable as is ” AND “ must be reviewed “.” “I would personally be committed to ensuring that gender theory does not find its place in our schools.” He stated, although there is no theory of gender, a term used as a contrast by a reactionary current, but rather studies on gender.
In the process, Anne Genetet’s entourage indicated to the press that the term ” gender identity » – used to distinguish sex at birth from feeling of particular male or female identity – “ will not appear » in the final version of the program without giving further explanations. However, on Monday the minister’s team stated World that ” Gender identity is one of the grounds of discrimination listed in the Penal Code.”
According to our information, before this change of opinion, the general directorate of school education was still working on Tuesday on a version that integrated this quarter into the program from grade 5.my as part of the fight against discrimination.
“Fears and fantasies”
In recent days, pressure from right-wing and extreme right-wing associations such as SOS-Education, the Family Union (formerly Manif pour tous) or Vigilant Parents – close to Eric Zemmour’s Reconquista movement – has intensified against this first draft program. dedicated to education in emotional life, relationships and sexuality.
The text should make it possible to make effective the three mandatory annual sessions provided for in schooling since a 2001 law and very little applied. The issue of public health, the fight against LGBTphobia and sexist and sexual violence is highlighted by educational agents, while nearly 160,000 children are victims of sexual assault and abuse each year. But for these conservative associations, this education has no place in school and belongs to the family. Many of them question the distinction between sex and gender, speaking of a “ gender theory “.
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