Bukele’s government prohibits inclusive language in El Salvador’s public schools

San Salvador.- The government of President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador prohibited the use of inclusive language in all public schools in the country, the president reported on his X account on Thursday night. “As of today, the so-called inclusive language is prohibited in all public educational centers in our country,” Bukele published. The Minister of Education, Karla Trigueros, pointed out that with this measure “we guarantee the proper use of our language in all material and content, as well as protect early childhood, children and adolescents from ideological interference that affects their integral development”.

“Today I issued the instruction to ban the so-called ‘inclusive language’ in all public educational centers and dependencies of our institution,” the minister stated.

According to a memorandum shared on X by the Army captain, the ban covers “all public educational centers and dependencies of that State portfolio” and thus consolidate a clear, uniform, and respectful institutional communication, so words like ‘amigue, compañere, niñe, todos y todas, alumn@, jóvenxs, nosotras‘ or any other linguistic deformation that alludes to gender ideology will not be admitted under any circumstances.”

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In February 2024, the then Minister of Education, José Mauricio Pineda, announced on X that “all use of gender ideology has been removed from public schools,” after President Nayib Bukele addressed this issue in the United States. Bukele said in Maryland at the Conservative Political Action Conference, in response to a question from the Hispanic coordinator of the organization Moms for Liberty, Catalina Stubbe, that for him “it is not only important that the curriculum does not carry this gender ideology and all these things, but also that parents are informed and have a voice and vote in what their children are going to learn”.