The Vermont Department of Health is advising educators and families to avoid using the terms “son” and “daughter” when speaking with students.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, the department suggested using “family-friendly, inclusive language” for the new school year.
“Equity in the classroom is a vital component of a productive and healthy learning environment,” the post read.
Instead of saying “daughter” or “son,” the ministry advised using the words “child” and “children,” suggesting that these are more “gender-neutral” terms.
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The Vermont Department of Health suggested using more “family-friendly and inclusive language.” (Vermont Department of Health)
TikTok Libs, a prominent right-wing social media account known for reposting far-left content that often includes anti-LGBTQ themes, shared a screenshot of the guidelines and said, “Yes, this is real.”
“The Vermont Department of Health is asking to stop using the words 'son' and 'daughter' in order to be more inclusive. It is wrong to erode the meaning of words and dismantle the family as a building block of society. Christians must stand for truth and not succumb to these issues,” the Dansbury Institute, an issue-based, nonpartisan church group that focuses on public policy issues, said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
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Asked about the post, the Vermont Department of Health told Fox News Digital that the guide is “intended to encourage inclusive language when you don't know someone's family situation.”
The Vermont Department of Health told Fox News Digital the guide is “intended to encourage inclusive language when you don't know someone's family situation.” (Credit:kali9/iStock)
The state's health department promotes a “health equity glossary” on its website that includes similar rhetoric.
The glossary, seen by Fox News Digital, defines gender as “social, psychological and emotional characteristics that are often influenced by societal expectations and are classified as male, female, a mix of both or neither,” and describes it as “socially constructed.”
The site also defines “internalized racism” as “an individual's private set of beliefs, prejudices, and ideas about the superiority of white people and the inferiority of people of color.”
The Vermont Department of Health has advised people working with students to use the terms “children” and “children” rather than “daughter” and “son,” which it says are more “gender-neutral.” (iStock)
The health department said the term “white” is “a social and political construct, not a biological one,” and linked to a 2016 video, “The Shockingly Racist History of 'Caucasian' | Decoding it.”
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The glossary also defines “white privilege” as “the set of unquestioned and unearned advantages, rights, benefits, and options that people have simply because they are white.”
