Italy's education ministry on Friday instructed schools to ban the growing use of gender-neutral symbols, saying they were ...

Italy’s Ministry of Education and Merit is ordering schools to stop using gender-neutral symbols, citing their lack of ...

"The use of non-compliant graphic signs ... has in the past suggested avoiding the novelty of gender-neutral symbols in official documents.

"The use of non-compliant graphic signs, such as the asterisk (*) and the schwa ... The Accademia della Crusca, an institution that acts as the guardian of the Italian language, has in the past ...