I read the guide. It begins by arguing that language can deconstruct systems of power that maintain poverty etc, so it is all based on queer theory and the idea that language changes reality.
If it does, then the way their recommendations erase our ability to fight against sex-based oppression is a truly ghastly move.
An example from the disability section:
Acting ‘in solidarity with’ is an alternative
to ‘standing with’, which avoids
potentially alienating people who are
unable to stand. It is a more inclusive
phrase to demonstrate a common cause
or interest.
This clearly means that I shouldn't have started this sentence with 'clearly' as it could refer to visual clarity or clarity of thinking and would be potentially alienating for people who have visual problems or who suffer from a bout of dizziness and so on.
Also, we must never use expressions such as "Do we hear anything from the ground?" or "They don't see the difficulties in their proposal" or "This is my running commentary" and so on.
Then there is this contradiction:
Gender norms are the culturally held ideals and expectations of behaviour and the different roles of men and women in society. Gender norms are important to our understanding of inequality because in every country in the world, they lead to the devaluing of women; whether through women’s disproportionate responsibility for unpaid care work, unequal access to education, being paid less for the same work as men, forced marriage or many other issues.
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The norms also erase the existence of non-binary and gender-fluid people, as well as people of other genders as differently expressed in the different contexts and cultures in which we work.
But later:
Gender can also be understood as
an identity. A person’s innate sense
of their own gender may or may not
correspond to the sex they were
assigned at birth, for example, trans
men and women and non-binary
people, and people of other genders
as differently expressed in the
different contexts and cultures in
which we work.
And in the definition of gender-nonconforming:
People who do not conform to the
social norms associated with the
gender that correlates with their sex
assigned at birth
These things clash with each other: * *
Either gender is the thing which keeps women down (it is) or it is this internal feeling which we must let everyone pursue, irrespective of their sex, for the sake of social justice. If it is assumed to be both (as this guide seems to assume), then women who have not transitioned are presumably choosing their own oppression!
And either it is important not to have strict and oppressive gender norms for everyone, or those who don't have them must have a special name (gender-nonconforming) while everyone else is perfectly fine with their socially assigned genders (us 'cis' people) or what they have chosen for themselves (trans and nonbinary people).