The ruling VVD is calling on home affairs minister Piet Hein Donner to stop councils giving grants to organisations which offer separate swimming lessons for women or other matters ‘which get in the way of integration’, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.

VVD parliamentarian Cora van Nieuwenhuizen will urge Donner this week to stop the subsidies for single-sex activities as well as end funding for organisations which oppose homosexual rights or whose activities conflict with democracy.
For example, a refugee centre with a separate computer room for women is sending out conflicting messages about Dutch society, she said.
The MP also wants the minister to scrap funding for the ethnic minorities discussion platform LOM. LOM is involved in talks with the government and advises on policy.
LOM should be able to find its own private sector funding by doing research on demand, Van Nieuwenhuizen is quoted as saying.