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' 

By CHARLIE MOORE FOR MAILONLINE

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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