Bolsonaro announces to send to Congress project against gender ideology

Jair Bolsonaro announced on the morning of Tuesday, May 12, that he will send the National Congress a federal bill against gender ideology. The statement took place moments before the flag-raising ceremony at the Alvorada Palace.

The president greeted the children taken by Father Pedro Stepien, who made a request to the head of state: “We children do not want gender ideology”. Also, they sang the song Jesus Christ, by Roberto Carlos.

“We know that, by 11 to 0, the STF overturned a municipal law that prohibited gender ideology. So, the law is municipal. Yesterday I already asked Major Jorge [Oliveira], our minister [of the General Secretariat], to provide a law, a federal project. And we must present this project today with constitutional urgency,” said Bolsonaro.

At the end of last month, on April 25, 11 ministers of the Federal Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, judged unconstitutional the

Law 1.516/2015 do Novo Gama (GO), which prohibited the “dissemination of material with reference to gender ideology in municipal schools in Novo Gama”.

According to the Attorney General's Office (PGR), when establishing a ban on the use of didactic material mentioning sexual diversity, the municipal law invaded the competence of the Union.

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