The senate doesn’t have legislative power they just suggest things. They’re advisors to the parliament.

This will be interesting if the parliament votes on it. It’s called the assemblée nationale and it’s currently way way less conservative than the senate which is mostly old guard pre-macron conservative, often religious, righto people who opposed gay marriage and all that stuff

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The French Senate has voted in favour of a proposed law banning gender-inclusive language from official communications in France.

On Monday,  Emmanuel Macron urged France not to “not to give in to the tides of time” and reject gender-inclusive writing in order to safeguard the French language.

There’s no need to add dots in the middle of words, or hyphens, or anything else to make it readable," the French President said at the opening of a new language centre in the town of Villers-Cotterêts, near Paris.

The law would ban such language in the workplace, advertising and contracts  “whenever the legislation (or regulatory bodies) require a text to be written in French’'.

The French President’s wife, Brigitte Macron and the Académie Française have long railed against what they see as a “barbaric abuse of syntax”.

The ban was proposed by Pascale Gruny, Les Républicains senator for the Aisne department, who refused to use the term “sénatrice”.

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Due to political disinterest I will not side, but to me this can be seen in two ways.

First view would be the following. Gender inequality is less prevelant (still very much existent) in france, than it is in america. Romance languages are more dynamic in how they interpret the actual gender of a word. As an example, while “les”, the article used to describe multiple of something, is masculine, “les insert female plural” and “les insert male plural” show, that this is nothing more than just referring to a group of something/someone as male, because it’s easier. This is not inherently bad, as we are, thankfully, all pretty similar, so we have grown to accept this as all encumbering and only when someone puts an emphasis on the male gender, is it actually seen as only meaning males.

The second view, rather simple, would be, that they are just not willing to make a decision to be more inclusive as a country (I do not necessarily mean the citizens by this).

Given the current political climate of france, leaning more towards the right, the second view could likely be correct.

Please note, that I am aware of the many issues that arise about what I wrote due to many different moral orientations and am not interested in any “correction” if you will. I do not mean to impede your freedom of speech, I may just not be responding to it :).