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Pearson GCSE Spanish Guide Offers Optional Example Phrases on Transgender Rights Campaigners
A Pearson revision guide for Edexcel Spanish GCSE contains example sentences about campaigning for transgender rights. The material targets 15- and 16-year-old students. Pearson states the examples are optional and not required for exams.
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GB News reported that a Pearson GCSE Spanish revision guide contains suggested phrases about admiring individuals who campaign for transgender rights. The examples appear in material for 15- and 16-year-olds preparing for the Edexcel Spanish examination. " Other listed completions include statements that the person is a good role model or supports other people.
Pearson stated that the phrases are optional examples rather than mandatory content students must memorise or use in examinations. Approximately 27,000 students took the Pearson Edexcel Spanish GCSE last year. GB News reported that Pearson specifications for French, Spanish and German GCSEs allow gender-neutral pronouns, nouns and adjectives formed with symbols such as asterisks, colons and underscores.
The company collaborated with Stonewall on editorial guidelines on inclusion in 2018; the partnership ended two years ago. A landmark Supreme Court ruling last year declared gender as strictly rooted in biological sex. Former French education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer labelled the gender-neutral terminology guidance "absurd".
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