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Staff at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra have been requested to avoid the
of certain words related to
. ANU's Gender Institute issued a
of replacement terms for
words like 'mother' and 'father'. The switch in vocabulary is part of an
to encourage more gender-neutral language. Staff are being asked to use the
'gestational parent' instead of 'mother,' and 'non-birthing
' in place of 'father'. The institute's gender handbook claims the
'mother' and 'father' exclude non-binary people. These are people who identify as being
male nor female. Non-binary people feel unrepresented in
because of words that refer to males and females.
