Sex-Ed Program in France: Recourse at the United Nations
CHRISTOPHE FOLTZENLOGEL for THE EUROPEAN CENTRE for LAW AND JUSTICE
The new sex education program has been mandatory for all public and private school students since September 2025.
In response to this violation of parents’ fundamental rights and children’s privacy, the ECLJ, together with Juristes pour l’enfance and other associations, are taking action before the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Today we submitted an Individual communication on behalf of parents whose case was dismissed by the French supreme administrative court, the Conseil d’État.
“At this age [3, 4, 5 years old], we have to explain to them that it’s really nice to touch your body, that it feels really good…” These are the words of a schoolteacher, recently shared on social media[1], explaining what she actually teaches children during sex education classes in kindergarten. This is the reality of what thousands of teachers and third-party interveners are teaching and will teach to students in public and private schools, aged 3 to 18.
The new program for “emotional, relational, and sexual education” (called EVARS in French) has been mandatory in all public and private schools under contract with the State since the start of the 2025 school year. This sex education program now imposes specific content to be covered in at least three mandatory lectures each year, with no exceptions nor exemptions possible. These courses, far from being limited to biology and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, aim to instill values and influence students’ behavior with a very clear doctrine: Gender is only a social construct, have all the sexual experiences you want, the only limit is your pleasure and the consent of the other person.
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