Overview

• Education Minister Karla Trigueros issued an immediate directive via memorandum sent to directors of roughly 5,100 public schools.
• The ban covers all ministry dependencies as well as official communications, materials and books produced or delivered by the Education Ministry.
• The document prohibits neutral-gender forms such as “amigue,” “compañere,” “niñe,” “alumn@,” “jóvenxs,” and “nosotrxs,” and bars constructions like “todos y todas.”
• President Nayib Bukele announced the decision on X and published the minister’s memo outlining the scope and instructions.
• The order cites the “good use” of Spanish and child development as justifications, provides no enforcement or sanctions detail, and continues prior moves to remove gender ideology from schools following recent discipline and courtesy rules criticized by a teachers’ union.