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Iraq bans media usage of words ‘homosexuality,’ ‘gender’: reports (thehill.com)

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Iraq’s official media regulator has reportedly banned the terms “homosexual” and “homosexuality” on all media and social media platforms and is instead mandating the usage of the term “sexual devia…

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[–] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck teaching most languages if the word "gender" is banned.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Hell, Arabic itself has gendered nouns.

أسماء عربية هي مؤنثة أو مذكرة