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French flag | Unsplash/Anthony Choren France’s ministry of education has prohibited the use of gender “inclusive” language, asserting that it harms the process of learning the French language. The education ministry sent out a decree to schools across the Western European nation in an effort to end the use of midpoints, period-like dots that are placed in the middle of words, separating most of the word from its ending, which designates it as either masculine or feminine. The mid...

© press France has banned the use of "gender-neutral" spellings of words being taught in schools, declaring that it has become a "threat to the French language." Last week, Frances education ministry issued the ruling in response to a push to include punctuation marks in the middle of written words - dubbed "midpoints." The use of midpoints in words allows both male and female forms to be represented simultaneously and, therefore, making gendered language "woke" and  "more inclusive." "...

France bans schools from teaching gender neutral words with full stops in the middle because they are a threat to the language Academie Francais, which guards the French language, has told school teachers to stop using gender neutral word spellings in classrooms New spellings use full stops to break up words and include both male and female endings in an effort to make language more inclusive  For example, word amis meaning friends, would be spelled ami.e.s to include the female e ending - tho...