The Polish government is pulling out of a European treaty said to focus on violence against women. Warsaw says it contains a provision for the schools to teach children about gender theory, which calls biological sexes “archaic.” The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has been directed to take the steps necessary to withdraw from the Council of Europe’s so-called Istanbul Convention, Poland’s Ministry of Justice said Monday. Poland ratified the treaty, which was signed in haste in 2012, back in 2015, but such countries as neighboring Hungary, Lithuania and the Czech Republic still have not. “It contains elements of an ideological nature, which we consider harmful,” Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro said, explaining the move. Also on rt.com Poland is villain in EU drama as bungling Brussels bean counters award it €16bn in aid despite least economic damage in Europe In particular, Warsaw takes issue with “the false assumption that biological sex is archaic, and in fact ...