In an effort to be more inclusive and welcoming to LGBT people, the French city of Marseille is preparing to remove mother and father from civil documents and replace the terms “parent 1” and “parent 2”.
According to Deputy Mayor Jean-Marc Bonnaffous, the city of Marseille is moving towards updating marital status forms such as administrative documents and marriage certificates to be “more inclusive than the law.”
The newspaper writes that so far the forms have been updated in some parts of the city, but Marseille hopes to implement the new changes city-wide as part of the initiative. reports.
Deputy Mayor Sophie Roques stated that in addition to the uniform changes, approximately 300 census takers received training on LGBT issues, adding that registrars will be trained on gender identity as well as sexuality.
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In November, French Citizenship Minister, Delegate Marlene Schiappa, announced that marital status forms would be more easily accessible to same-sex people and would no longer automatically list father and mother.
“In this case, it means you have two moms or two dads or two moms and two dads,” Schiappa said.
Alexander Urwich, president of the Homoparental Families Association, welcomed the change, but said it would take eight years for the policy to pass as France passed a law on same-sex marriage in 2013.
But in 2019, the French parliament decided to remove the parents from their school uniforms and replace them with “parent 1” and “parent 2”, which law professor Aude Mirkovic called unfair.
“However, parents are not just legal guardians, such as a guardian or delegate of parental authority. It has a constitutive dimension to show children their origin, and measures that reduce them to legal guardians deprive children and parents of this property,” he said.
France is not the only country where calls have been made to abandon terms like parents in the name of inclusion. Last April, schools in Melbourne, Australia called for the abandonment of gender-neutral terms and the use of neutral terms like parent instead.
Source: Breitbart
