“Wake Up!” Program For Our Children, a coalition of several associations, yesterday organized silent marches in several cities across the country under the motto “Family Educates” against what they call the “gender doctrine” and the law of self-determination of gender identity. in schools. In a statement, one of the organizers criticizes the decree establishing the measures that schools must take to ensure the right to self-determination of gender identity and the protection of students’ sexual characteristics, approved late last year and vetoed by the President of the Republic. According to Gisela Sequeira, quoted in the statement, the diploma “contributes to social transitions within the school, in the absence of family knowledge or lack of knowledge.” “It’s time for families to stand up and voice their opposition,” he adds. According to the organizers, the initiative “aims to make visible the outrage of thousands of parents about the state of education in Portugal.” “We do not accept the expropriation of our children’s education,” they emphasize.