It turns out the National Education Association won’t be replacing “mothers” with “birthing parents,” at least not this year.
The nation’s largest teachers’ union said in a Thursday statement that a hot-button proposal to swap out the words “mother,” “father,” and “maternity leave” with gender-neutral terms in contract language didn’t come up for a vote this week at the annual meeting.
“NBI 63 [New Business Item 63] was not considered on the floor of NEA’s 2022 Representative Assembly,” said the NEA in an email to The Washington Times.
The item sought to change “mother” to “birthing parent,” “father” to “non-birthing parent,” and “maternity leave” to “parental leave” in the name of LGBTQ inclusion.