Taipei Times
Date: Nov 22, 2018
By Ann Maxon  /  Staff reporter

The Alliance for Education Action yesterday announced the results of its review of the education platforms of candidates running for mayor in the six special municipalities, including their plans to promote gender equality, improve education quality and balance students’ stress.

The alliance on Nov. 1 published a list of questions for the candidates, including how they would promote gender equality education and whether they agree its content should be appropriate to the students’ age, adding that “many parents fear gender equality education would turn into classes advocating ‘sex liberation’ and homosexuality.”

The questions were apparently related to two referendums on gender equality education to be held on Saturday alongside the nine-in-one elections.

One proposes to ban education about homosexuality at elementary and junior-high school levels, as is required by the central government, while the other advocates introducing the rules into the Gender Equity Education Act (性別平等教育法) to better ensure they are enforced.    [FULL  STORY]