Girl Guides is given ‘woke’ makeover with new ‘inclusive’ language guidance telling leaders to say ‘parents and carers’ instead of mother and father

The Girl Guides have been given a new ‘woke‘ style guide with ‘inclusive’ language telling leaders to use ‘parents and carers’ instead of mother and father.

A 60-page document sent to leaders of Guides and Brownies groups has set out the new language guide on ‘how to be as inclusive as possible when communicating’.

Britain’s biggest girls’ group described itself as a ‘girl-only space for all girls and young women’.

But it adds that it is also proud ‘to be a trans-inclusive organisation and welcome trans girls and non-binary young people’.

The guide says: ‘We know the term “girl” may not cover these young people – and language is of course always evolving.

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