Slovak schooling chief refuses to implement anti-LGBTQ+ measures in faculties

“The instructional content material might be determined completely by specialists and lecturers throughout my tenure as a minister of schooling,” Drucker stated at a press convention Wednesday the place he launched a bundle of 89 college reforms. “I completely reject any politicization of schooling and impetuous interventions in schooling.”

What now appears to be a small disagreement might become a bigger rift within the authorities coalition as a number of MPs from Smer and SNS are in favor of curbing rights of LGBTQ+ folks.

Slovak Culture Minister Martina Šimkovičová final month blamed sexual minorities for Europe’s low fertility fee, whereas the prime minister has known as the combat towards “gender ideologies” one in every of his authorities’s priorities.

Drucker’s statements come throughout a turbulent time in Slovakia, with hundreds of individuals protesting and calling on Šimkovičová to resign over her selections threatening media freedom and the independence of cultural establishments.

Bulgaria earlier this month adopted an analogous anti-LGBTQ+ regulation, which has sparked demonstrations throughout the nation and drawn condemnation from human rights teams.