WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE ITALY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Italy, FAI, Umanita Nova: UNICOBAS STATEMENT: AGAINST ALL SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION FOR FREEDOM OF TEACHING AND LEARNING (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Attacks on inclusion and freedom of education continue. The Valditara

Bill 2423, accompanied by the Sasso and Amorese bills currently under
discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, intervenes in a reactionary and
repressive manner in the area of sexual and emotional education. The
Valditara Bill provides for: Mandatory written consent from families for
every student participating in activities related to sexuality.
Mandatory revision of the PTOF and the Co-responsibility Agreement to
include family consent.

Informed consent from families will be required to conduct
extracurricular educational and teaching activities and to expand the
curriculum regarding sexuality. Decisions will be based on a detailed
review of the teaching materials related to the activities, which must
be provided in advance.

This constitutes a serious interference in the freedom of teaching and
in the definition of school curriculum, which is the responsibility of
the Teachers' Council. It also constitutes a serious restriction on the
right to education and training, subject to the veto of families,
resulting in discrimination among students.

Aware of the highly questionable nature of this move, even on a formal
level, Valditara has carefully considered securing family consensus by
effectively reforming the PTOF (Programme for the Teaching of
Educational Activities) and the Educational Co-responsibility Agreement.
As stated in the bill, and more specifically in the Sasso proposal,
schools will be required to review the Agreement and include a specific
section in the PTOF entitled "Sensitive Activities Regarding the
Personal Sphere."

Preschool, primary school, and, in the Sasso proposal, even lower
secondary school are strictly excluded from any activities regarding
"topics related to sexuality."

Activities may be held in high schools, but with severe limitations, not
only due to strict family control, but also due to the rigid content
limitation that reflects a sex-phobic and homophobic perspective.

The Sasso bill, linked to the Valditara bill, proposes the following
objectives:

Abolish Alias career paths, except in cases where formal "sex assignment
rectification" is demonstrated;

Abolish so-called "neutral bathrooms," requiring a distinction between
male and female bathrooms and changing rooms, and requiring students to
"use only those of the sex assigned at birth." A similar requirement
applies to participation in sporting events in both male and female
categories;

Prohibit activities "in any way connected to issues concerning gender
identity or fluidity or sexual orientation, or that may even implicitly
promote sexual or gender transition."

If any doubts still remained, Amorese, author of the other bill related
to the Valditara Bill, reiterates the objectives of the measure in his
introduction. He specifies the need to curb, in schools, the "spread of
distorted cultural models and ideological contaminations that appear
intolerable," and reiterates the need to ensure families play a decisive
role in school education on sexual, emotional, and ethical issues.

It is unacceptable to attempt to stifle any attempt (even if lacking
formal external relevance, such as the Alias career path) to include and
embrace the processes of constructing gender identity during
adolescence, and to even grotesquely dictate which bathroom to use.

This is the response the Ministry has successfully given to the need to
promote activities that deconstruct gender stereotypes, educate about
emotional and sexual relationships, and prevent the spread of violence!

We strongly reject this bill, inspired by the gender obsession rampant
among the most conservative right, by an exasperated familism that
demands the educational primacy of the family, by contempt for public
schools and their governing bodies, by the repression of academic
freedom and the restriction of the right to education.

We reject any form of control and censorship of teaching and academic
freedom.

We reject any form of discrimination, homophobia, sexophobia, and
obscurantism.

IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL OF THE VALDITARA-SASSO-AMORESE BILL

UNICOBAS SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY

Member of the Italian Confederation of Basic Workers

Regional headquarters, Via Pieroni 27 - 57123 LIVORNO - Tel. 0586 210116

Regional website: www.unicobaslivorno.it Email: info@unicobaslivorno.it

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