In America, Alberta's government have released a new set of guidelines for how to have an 'inclusive' environment in its schools, including instructions to avoid using the words 'mother' and father.
Underneath a section titled “Indicators of this best practice in action,” it states:
School forms, websites, letters, and other communications use non-gendered and inclusive language (e.g., parents/guardians, caregivers, families, partners, “student” or “their” instead of Mr., Ms., Mrs., mother, father, him, her, etc.).
Is this where we will end up with this incessant policing of language?
www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/alberta-schools-mother-father-transphobic/