Controversial Sex Education Training in French-speaking Belgium: The Turmoil Explained

2023-09-24 12:20:04

By Samuel Fitoussi

Published 2 hours ago, Updated 59 minutes ago

A protest rally against the Evras program on September 7. ERIC LALMAND / AFP

CHRONICLE – Every Monday, for Le Figaro, our columnist takes an ironic look at the news. This week, he is interested in the turmoil caused, in French-speaking Belgium, by training on sex education which is now compulsory in middle school.

At the beginning of the month, the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation made training on sex education compulsory in middle schools. This will involve, among other things, teaching students that « gender identity can be the same or different, come closer, move away, correspond, not correspond, differ, oscillate… from that assigned at birth ». In the process, several Islamic organizations called for a rally against the initiative of the Ministry of Education. Then the situation got worse: protesters – modestly described by The Monde like extremists « religious »it is true that some Christians got involved – burned down several schools.

A situation that places our intersectional friends in a delicate position. It is not so much the degradation of public buildings by oppressed minorities that bothers them (Nahel jurisprudence: the method is acceptable if the causes defended are noble), nor religious intolerance…

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