Overview

• The Chamber of Deputies’ Culture Commission approved a majority amendment that prohibits classroom activities on sexuality in primary and now also lower secondary (middle) schools.
• The change is part of the Valditara bill on informed consent, which restricts any remaining projects to high schools with prior parental approval of topics, materials, and instructors.
• Lega rapporteur Rossano Sasso says the measure does not abolish sex education but excludes activities beyond national guidelines and bars involvement by what he calls ideologized external activists.
• Opposition figures from PD, AVS and Più Europa denounced the move as censorial and regressive, with Riccardo Magi noting funds once approved for sex‑affective education were later redirected to fertility training.
• Supporters, including Pro Vita & Famiglia Onlus, welcomed the measure, while the proposal still requires full parliamentary debate and votes in a country where sex education is not mandatory and often relied on external experts.