France to introduce new sex education guidelines in schools

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The Higher Education Council will consolidate the emotional, relational and sexual education program. Since this announcement, parents' associations, including some close to the extreme right, have increased threats and intimidation.

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France to introduce new sex education guidelines in schools

The French government is putting the final touches on a reformed sex education syllabus for schools, with some topics, notably around gender identity, causing resistance among conservative groups.

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The text is due to be presented to the Higher Education Council on Wednesday. Apart from symbolic changes compared to the previous document, the philosophy of the program remains the same.

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After several polemics, the new version of the draft programme on education for emotional, relational and sexual life attempts to find a balance by reducing occurrences on gender identity, without removing the term, and speaking of puberty in a progressive way from the CM1.

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The concept of gender will be discussed from the high school, said the Minister of National Education this Thursday on France Inter.

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Consent, gender identity, pornography... The new National Education curriculum includes areas that will be explained throughout the school year.