cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51328301
The Culture Committee of the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday approved an amendment to Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara’s “informed consent” bill, extending the current ban on sex education from kindergartens and primary schools to middle schools (ages 11 to 14).
Context: Giuseppe Valditara, Education secretary, is a male, 64;
Giorgia Meloni, Prime minister, is a female, 48. Pic related.
She tabled the bill to continue limiting sex-ed.
Opinion: Progress. Although killing your partner is not directly related to sex-ed, sex-ed is generally good. Students learn hygiene and STI prevention.
I don’t study these curriculums, but the class I took didn’t mention homosexuals or gender roles. Gender id and transgender weren’t in pop culture, but I doubt it is included today.
That’s essentially been the Republican playbook in the US for the past 40 years. Introduce heinous legislation, media and opposition hem and haw for a couple weeks, pull the heinous legislation for something that is 75% less heinous which passes. Rinse and repeat and people consider it a victory every time their rights are eroded away
She brought to the table an extension of the limit from primary to middle school. And it passed. So no sex ed until kids are over 14. Meanwhile the average age of menarche is 12 years. And girls and women are being murdered. But all she cares about is keeping kids from learning about any options besides traditional marriage and gender roles.
This is not progress.
I fail to see how this is progress. I know in the US “tabled” means the topic is set aside, but elsewhere the term means the precise opposite: to suggest the formal discussion of something.
This is Italy further restricting sex education, unless I’m seriously misunderstanding the article. The opposite of progress.