Gender-neutral GCSE French lessons trigger international row

Here you are - same organisation - Pearsons - rendering themselves look unprofessional, politically dodgy and incompetent because they can't say no to transactivists they employ.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5527067-gcse-pupils-taught-toilets-provided-by-biological-sex-is-discrimination-according-to-new-gcse-revision-book

This is also being discussed in the GCSE Biology thread (but I can’t figure out how to share that here). And yes it’s insane that the English are now telling the French, Germans and Spanish how to speak their own languages and not accepting it when the French, German and Spanish object. Presumably because objections show how transphobic their languages are. Since it’s no longer 2019 I hope this will be corrected quickly.

Tout à fait dingue. C’est une blague?? 🤞🏼

The arrogance of this ideology breathtaking!

Unfortunately object words still have their prescribed genders, which I must admit make no sense at all, so you will still have to learn that it's LA table.

But you can (sorry, you should !) now use the made-up "lae" everywhere gender did make sense, because because because.

I'm the mother of a dyslexic French child (and two non dyslexic French children) and this makes me fume.

use of gender-neutral nouns, whether indicated by adding punctuation, asterisks or using alternative spellings

Whoa. No need to learn the genders of anything! You can just stick asterisks all over the place and compromise on agreements?!

Well, that would've elevated my Bs to As in one fell swoop 😂It would also have meant I spoke my languages worse than a native four-year-old (they're corrected from the moment they utter their first sentence) but, hey - the point of learning other languages is wokeness, not competence. Apparently.

L* monde devient plus foule par jour ...

So the word ‘amies’ has 2 extra asterisks in - so it’s just the same word with added punctuation thrown in. Then they say as long as they are consistent in written and verbal exams. So is it pronounced differently with the 2 asterisks in? I am totally confused.

I'm just baffled by that, they're setting the children up to fail by teaching them a version of French that the French don't speak, even though it won't come up in any exam, that's just bonkers.

"A Pearson spokesman said: “Gender-neutral pronouns are not required as part of Pearson Edexcel GCSE French, German, or Spanish. The specifications require students to learn and be assessed only on the standard masculine and feminine forms used in these languages."

Having wreaked havoc on the English language they're going to re-write all the others languages as well.