Vermont advises schools to use gender-neutral terms instead of 'son' and 'daughter'.
The Vermont Department of Health recommends educators and families avoid using "son" and "daughter" when addressing students.
On Wednesday, the department proposed using "inclusive language for families" in the upcoming school year.
A productive and healthy learning environment requires equity in the classroom.
The department recommended using "child" or "kid" instead of "daughter" or "son" to make the language more "gender-neutral."
A right-wing social media account, Libs of TikTok, posted a screenshot of guidelines stating "yes, this is real."
The Vermont Department of Health advises against using the terms "son" and "daughter" to promote inclusivity. This undermines the significance of words and the role of family as the foundation of society. Christians must uphold truth and resist compromising on these matters, as stated by the Dansbury Institute, a nonpartisan church organization that focuses on public policy issues.
The Vermont Department of Health stated to Planet Chronicle Digital that the guide was meant to promote the use of inclusive language when one is unsure of someone's family situation.
The state's health department promotes a "health equity glossary" on its website, which utilizes similar rhetoric.
The definition of gender, according to the glossary reviewed by Planet Chronicle Digital, is "a set of social, psychological, and/or emotional characteristics that determine whether someone is classified as male, female, a combination of both, or neither, and is considered to be socially constructed."
The website describes "internalized racism" as a set of private beliefs and prejudices that individuals hold about the superiority of whites and the inferiority of people of color.
The health department claims that the term "white" is a socio-political construct rather than a biological one and provides a link to a 2016 video titled "The Surprisingly Racist History of 'Caucasian' | Decoded."
White privilege refers to the unquestioned and unearned advantages, entitlements, benefits, and choices that people have solely because they are white.
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