What are the staff of the Australian National University asked to do? [originalt

Staff at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra have been requested to avoid the use of certain words related to gender. ANU’s Gender Institute issued a list of replacement terms for everyday words like ’mother’ and ’father’. The switch in vocabulary is part of an initiative to encourage more gender-neutral language. Staff are being asked to use the term ’gestational parent’ instead of ’mother,’ and ’non-birthing-parent’ in place of ’ father’. The institute’s gender handbook claims the words ’mother’ and ’father’ exclude non-binary people. These are people who identify as being neither male nor female. Non-binary people feel unrepresented in society because of words that refer to males and females.