Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has intervened to scrap a consent form for new parents that used the term “birthing parent” after a mother complained about the gender-neutral language.
The minister’s decision has fuelled an ongoing, often vituperative debate about the appropriateness of gender-neutral terms, particularly around childbirth.
The controversy was triggered after Sall Grover, a self-described feminist, founder of a women-only app and podcaster who rails against “gender ideology”, alerted her social media followers to the form she said she was asked to complete after giving birth at Gold Coast University Hospital.
“Attention women in Australia: on the form to put our newborn baby on our Medicare card, we are referred to as ‘birthing parent’,” Grover tweeted on Tuesday.\
Grover called it “exclusionary, alienating and derogatory towards every woman [who] wants to be and is called ‘mother’” .
Source: Bill Shorten has gender-neutral language removed from Medicare form
It’s more than ‘wants to be and is called mother’.
‘Mother’ is the English work used for a human who has delivered a baby.
I think the trans nonesense has reached it’s high water mark now and from here on in we shall see the pendulum swing back to something approaching normality.
Hopefully…