UK-based Transgender organization urged employees to drop the word ‘mother’ and replace it with ‘parent who has given birth’ in order to be more inclusive.
Stonewall, a UK-based LGBT rights non-profit organization is pressuring businesses to replace the term ‘mother’ with ‘parent who has given birth’ in order to make the cut on its Workplace Equality Index, which has attracted more than 500 applications in the last year.
The charity says that featuring on the Index allows employers to understand their employees’ experiences and shows commitment to LGBT equality. Those achieving a coveted Top 100 spot, are then allowed to use the Top 100 Employers logo to promote their achievement.
The Pro-Transgender organization faces backlash
Stonewall’s guidance includes urging employers to add gender pronouns to email signatures, outlawing single-sex toilets, and changing rooms, the Daily Mail reports.
According to them, the word ‘mother’ should be banned and it has sparked an immediate backlash. Campaigners across the UK are calling for an inquiry into how the group has had such an influence on government offices.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), recently cut ties with Stonewall, because they felt that the charity’s scheme for ‘woke’ workplaces curbs the right to free speech of staff members.
The decision came amid accusations that the scheme is encouraging public bodies to adopt policies that create a ‘culture of fear’ among workers who disagree with transgender ideology.
Banning the word ‘mother’ is a supposed tactic to make trans men and women, as well as non-binary individuals more comfortable, and to ensure they don’t feel as if the term excludes them. But critics of the idea say it impedes women’s rights and makes a mockery of basic biology
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