The Refuge, an association fighting against homophobia and transphobia, has obtained approval from the Minister of Education after two years of proceedings, she announced Tuesday, August 5.
This decision should in particular enable the organization to expand its outreach in schools. “Our sessions are necessary because the prejudices and stereotypes about homosexuality and transsexuality are anchored in a majority of students” says Nicolas Noguier, president of Refuge, in a statement.
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1500 STUDENTS AWARE
The Refuge account effect “ideally double its interventions in 2014-2015, focusing firstly on establishments in priority neighborhoods, on the other hand the information educational staff and supervisors “. The association, which operates since 2010 in Vocational Education Languedoc-Roussillon, most recently PACA and schools in the Paris region, has already reached over 1500 students.
But plans Refuge have been thwarted by several legal twists. In November 2012, the department had refused to grant the association of national accreditation supplementary educational associations of public education. A year later, the Administrative Court annulled this decision and in January 2014, the Minister appealed against that judgment before the Minister Benoît Hamon announced in May the withdrawal of his ministry.See also our report at Refuge Montpellier: “Politicians talk of marriage not to mention suicide among young gay”
ABOUT “INSUFFICIENT nuances”
This is not the only association to fight against stereotypes about homosexuality which had experienced a legal setback. The approval of another association, SOS Homophobia, granted in 2009, was canceled in November 2013 by the Paris Administrative Court, provided by the National Confederation of Catholic Family Associations (CNAFC).
According to the CNAFC, the court considered that integrated in the module awareness scenarios were “insufficiently nuanced” and some statements were “likely to undermine the religious and philosophical convictions” students, parents or teachers. SOS Homophobia had finally received a new five-year national accreditation in May 2013.
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