In order not to "offend" lesbians and "gays", the U.K.'s National Health Service seeks to ban staff members from using such "offensive" terms.  A taxpayer-funded "study" suggests that instead of employing "offensive" terms such as "mother" and "father", neutral terms such as "carers" should be used.  Orwell would be so pleased.

Last night the advice was dismissed as “politically correct nonsense”.  Correctly.

The document is called Fair For All — The Wider Challenge — Good Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Practice in the NHS.

It says: “Using the terms ‘husband’, ‘wife’ and ‘marriage’ assumes opposite sex relationships only and will automatically exclude all LGB people.

“Using the term ‘partner’ and ‘they/them’ to refer to the partner will avoid this problem. This is also inclusive of all heterosexual couples, regardless of their marital status.”

It adds: “LGBT people can and do have children, sexual orientation or gender identity has nothing to do with good parenting or good child care.”

Ya know what?  It's about time these idiots put up or shut up.  So far, all they offer is their religion.  And that's not good enough.