“We do not agree,” said President Sheinbaum during her usual morning press conference when answering a question about the reform approved by the Congress of Chihuahua.
“No more ideologized language in classrooms or woke confusion: only the biological truth that only boys and girls exist, not ‘children,'” Carlos Olson, deputy of the National Action Party (PAN), celebrated on his X account.
Jael Argüelles, a legislator from the ruling Morena party, spoke out against the proposal and pointed out that “defending inclusive language is defending the right to be, to exist.”
The reform endorsed on Tuesday with 17 votes in favor and 14 against adds to the powers of the state educational authorities that of “promoting the correct use of the grammatical and spelling rules of the Spanish language.”
In 2024, the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, banned “inclusive language” throughout the national administration and along the same lines, the US president, Donald Trump, said in January that his government would only recognize two genders: male and female.
