France stops gender-neutral grammar push: ‘Would certainly and perhaps forever defeat the French language’

Published May 16, 2021 12:00am ET



France banned the use and teaching of gender-neutral grammar in schools as part of an effort to push back on social revisionism.

The push for gender-neutral words is “harmful to the practice and understanding of [French],” according to the Academie Francais, the entity responsible for regulating the French language.

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