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SAN SALVADOR, Honduras (TND) — El Salvador Education Minister José Mauricio Pineda confirmed Tuesday his department has removed all education materials concerning “gender ideology” from public schools.
The department expelled content from books and guides authorized by the country’s previous administration. Pineda informed education ministry directors in a letter Wednesday of the purge.
“It has taken care that all educational material and programming, didactic resources, plans, text and work books, administrative documents, websites, learning guides, multimedia objects and other documentation related to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology’s daily work does not contain nor make allusion to said ideology,” the minister wrote in the memo obtained by La Prensa Gráfica.
Any school officials discovered to be violating the department’s directive will face legal consequences, according to the minister.
“I call to you as national directors, staff directors, education department directors, managers, bosses, technical staff … that you take care of our students’ integral education and comply with this disposition in order to avoid penal measures that can result in the stoppage of functions following due process,” Pineda warned.
The expulsion followed years of the ministry’s resistance to teaching “gender ideology,” according to Pineda.
“On this occasion, I allow myself to reiterate that this ministry, since the 2022 school year, established its official position surrounding all the related elements of gender ideology,” he noted. “In that sense, all the aforementioned content with this ideology has been excluded from the teaching and learning process of our students.”
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The education ministry’s prohibition came less than a month after voters reelected El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, a conservative populist who has opposed lessons related to gender identity.
During the Conservative Political Action Committee conference held earlier this month, Bukele emphasized the importance of removing “gender ideology” from school curriculums, arguing parents “have a say” in what their children learn, according to El País.
On Feb. 23, El Salvador failed to meet a deadline set by the nation’s supreme court ordering it to create a gender recognition process preventing transgender discrimination, according to Human Rights Watch.
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