University Orders Staff to Use 'Woke' Language: Call Fathers 'Non-Birthing Parent'
"mother’s milk" to describe lactation when you are "woke." Staff are told to acknowledge the mistake and correct themselves if they fail to use inclusive language. It cites a 2019 study by researcher Lauren Dinour. Dinour claims that "heterosexual and woman-focused lactation language ... can misgender, isolate, and harm transmasculine parents and non-heteronormative families." "This non-gendered language is particularly important in clinical or abstract academic discussions of childbirth and parenthood, both to recognize [sic] the identities of students in the class, and to model inclus...