France Bans Gender-Neutral Language in Schools, Citing Harm to Learning
On 5/10/21 at 11:13 AM EDT
France has banned the use of gender-neutral language in schools, citing harm to the learning of the French language.
In a decree sent to schools across France, the country s education ministry aimed to end the use of midpoints that designate both masculine and feminine endings to words. As the
Telegraph reported, in the French language, nouns reflect the gender of the object they are referring to and the masculine ending is usually dominant.
For example, a group of friends including five women and one man would be written as amis but a midpoint would change the spelling of the word to ami.e.s.
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