the project as it stands “is not acceptable”, believes Minister Delegate Alexandre Portier

The proposed sex life education program which must soon be formalized “is not acceptable” as is and “ and it needs to be reviewed”declared the Minister for Educational Success, Alexandre Portier, Wednesday, November 27, during the government questions session in the Senate.

Announced by former Minister of Education Pap Ndiaye and initially planned for the start of the 2024 school year, this project, which is the subject of an offensive from conservative circles, must be presented to trade union organizations in December. This text, the current version of which is not yet final, has been the subject of consultations since the spring.

Saying to have “three important reservations” on the current version of the project, the delegate minister, close to Laurent Wauquiez, first assured that he “would personally commit to ensuring that gender theory [il n’existe pas une « théorie du genre » mais des études sur le genre] does not find its place in our schools, because it should not have its place there”. “Secondly, activism has no place in our schools either. And I want very strict supervision of all the speakers who will have to address these subjects”he continued.

A very “progressive” and “sequenced” project, according to the minister

“Thirdly, I also want better consideration of the development of our students. Because all the notions that must be mentioned in these subjects must [l’]obviously depending on the development of our students” and be “appropriate”.

Education Minister Anne Genetet promised last week that the new program would be very “progressive” et ” sequence “ against a backdrop of controversy on the subject. She assured that she had taken “the time it took to reread the program very carefully”which is, in his opinion, “very complete”.

The minister and her delegate minister “are aligned”even if Alexandre Portier expresses it differently, assured Anne Genetet's entourage to Agence France-Presse (AFP). “This is why the ministry has made changes to the program which will be presented in mid-December to the Higher Council of Education [une instance consultative]. » The term “gender identity”, which came up several times in the previous version of the text, will not appear in the final version, this source told AFP.