Don't calls girls 'girls' or 'young women' in case it offends pupils questioning their gender identity, schools are told

Head teachers belonging to the Girls' Schools Association given advice
Told to use gender-neutral words like 'pupils' to avoid discrimination
Person behind advice branded term 'young ladies' sexist and 'transphobic'

PUBLISHED: 15:11 GMT, 19 June 2016 | UPDATED: 15:42 GMT, 19 June 2016

Teachers at Britain's leading girls' schools have been told not to call pupils 'girls' or 'young women' in case it offends any questioning their gender identity.

Head teachers belonging to the Girls' Schools Association were instructed to use gender-neutral words like 'pupils' or 'students' to avoid discrimination.

The advice issued last week also banned the phrase 'young ladies' and recommended the creation of unisex lavatories.

Caroline Jordan, President of the GSA and headmistress of £33,000-a-year Headington School in Oxfordshire, backed the advice saying it affects an increasing number of young people questioning their identity.

'In assemblies, instead of saying "Girls, go to lessons," staff should consider saying "Pupils, go to lessons," or "Students, go to lessons,"' she told the Sunday Times.

'I do not want anyone to think that girls' or boys' schools are invested in one way of being a girl or one way of being a boy.

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on June 22, 2016 at 3:41pm

FFS. More of the psychopaths' BS. Why should 99.97% of Us worry about what the 0.03% "transgendered" People are choosing to feel about the universe They find Themselves in?

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Permalink Reply by DTOM on June 22, 2016 at 7:22pm

I can see the Western population finally losing their patience and snapping...very soon...what is presented in the MSM, in no way represents what the majority of people are thinking and saying in confidence.

You can only push people so far.

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on June 23, 2016 at 10:30am

Maybe... But that passivity of the fluoride... May We walk away from all those psychopath-promoting systems.

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Permalink Reply by Marklar on June 22, 2016 at 10:20pm

The obvious solution is to adopt the word marklar as the universal word for all people places and things.

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Permalink Reply by Amaterasu Solar on June 23, 2016 at 10:33am

I marklar that You marklar, so marklar on the marklar, and marklar will marklar! Excellent!

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Permalink Reply by MAC on June 23, 2016 at 9:36am

Don't enable the mentally ill.

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Permalink Reply by lonnie w kingery on June 24, 2016 at 8:08am

Political correctness is destroying this country and the world! Our feelings aren't protected and we''re becoming tremendous pussies. This generation will never survive being called a name!

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Permalink Reply by Anti Everything on June 24, 2016 at 8:19am

How is calling a child a "pupil" NOT offensive if all things are now offensive? Is it the 'all seeing eye thing'? Shouldn't they each individually be called 'Pupils'? And then again I have to wonder what happened to the old saying, " Sticks and stones break the bones but names will never harm me."? It seems the sticks and stones and war and government torture etc are ok now but the name calling thing has really got the 'panties in a wad'! Silly (dangerous) shit; glad I live in the woods.