Colombian president pulls ‘transgender education’ plan after massive protests
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has cancelled all plans to impose “transgender education” on the nation’s schools after massive protests were carried out last Wednesday throughout the country. “We just met with Cardinal Rubén Salazar, the Apostolic Nuncio, Ettore Balestrero, and Monsignor Fabio Suescún, the bishop of Colombia’s armed forces,” Santos said in a press conference held the day after the protests. “We clearly reiterated to these prelates of the Catholic Church — and we must make it clear to all religious confessions — that neither the Ministry of Education nor the national government has implemented, has promoted, or will promote so-called gender ideology.” Santos claimed that a Ministry of Education booklet on teaching students to accept transsexualism and homosexuality wasn’t actually official, despite bearing the name of Colombia’s lesbian education minister, Gina Parody, and the logo of the Ministry of Education. The booklet, produced in coopera