by Amelia Hansford (ThePinkNews.com)
Emmanuel Macron (Getty)
French President Emmanuel Macron has voiced his support for a bill banning gender-inclusive language on official state documents.
During the inauguration of the Cité Internationale de la Langue Française, a cultural and living space entirely dedicated to the French language and French-speaking cultures, on Monday (30 October), Macron said France should not give into what he described as fashionable trends.
“We need to allow our language to live, to draw inspiration from others, to steal words, including from the other side of the world… to continue to invent, but also to keep its foundations, the foundations of its grammar.”
Just hours before a bill seeking to ban gender-affirming language was debated in the senate, Macron reaffirmed his opposition to changing the binary structure of the language.
If passed, the policy would ban the teaching of “inclusive” writing, known as écriture inclusive, which involves writing both masculine and feminine forms of gendered words, separated by dots.
Examples include “président.e.s” (president), sénateur.rice.s (senators), and cher·e·s lecteur·rice·s (dear reader).
“In our language, the masculine acts as the neutral,” Macron said. “There is no need to add dots in the middle of words, or dashes, or anything that makes the text unreadable.”
He argued that the writing style would muddy the language, which “builds the unity of the nation.”
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