Nothing like informed consent to this serious constriction can be said to exist; nor is there any reason for a modern society to play along with the grotesque belief that five year old girls must cover themselves because they are sexually arousing to men.
Macron’s party proposes forbidding “minors under 15 from wearing the veil in public spaces,” and would make it a “criminal offence for coercion against parents who force their underage daughters to wear the veil.”
For most of these children, the veil is only part one. There’s the unvarying uniform of the long baggy black dress, and the comprehensive gender segregation that keeps them out of many normal childhood activities. The French government rightly sees this mode of female upbringing as emblematic of a repressive fanaticism seriously at odds with the free, egalitarian values of the state.