There has been total outrage after Sydney-based queer health organisation ACON, which is primarily funded by the NSW Government and also receives money from the ABC, advised workplaces to abandon the terms Mother and Father, to promote LGBTQ inclusion.

The lobby group has suggested the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ be replaced with ‘primary caregiver’ and ‘secondary caregiver’.

In a training video, HR staff were told to avoid using gendered terms when writing office policies to make sure gender norms are not reinforced, reported Daily Mail.

‘When we continue to use terms that buy into that, such as ‘maternity leave’, ‘paternity leave’, ‘mother’, ‘dads’, all of these terms, that’s reinforcing those gender norms,’ the video states.

‘So using terms like ‘primary caregivers’, ‘secondary caregiver’, making sure we’re not referring to partners using gender terms like ‘mother’, like ‘dad’, is really important.’

Radio host sees RED

Radio 2GB host Ben Fordham, who is also a father, slammed the policy as a ‘crack pot idea’ being pushed by an organisation with an ‘official relationship with the ABC’.

‘This is a group that doesn’t want anyone saying ‘mothers’ or ‘fathers’. If you’re taking advice from this mob, you need a check up,’ Ben Fordham wrote on Facebook.

ACON, which stands for AIDS Council of NSW, receives $13million in government funding every year and $4million from organisations who sign up as members.

‘Pay them out of your own pocket. Because we don’t consent to our money being spent on this crap.’

According to the Daily Telegraph- 60 Government departments have signed up to ACON’s schemes.

That includes the office of ‘Prime Minister and Cabinet’, some schools and the Police department.

Listeners were quick to share their opinions in the comments on Ben’s Facebook page below.

One comment read; “I am a Mother, a Grandmother and I will be dammed if I will be identified as anything other than that. I am a woman and proud of it.”

Another wrote, “It’s diminishing my much treasured role as a mother and I will not bow to this insanity.”

“Who is to say the mother is the primary caregiver! It could be the father. So how can you put someone in a particular box. Also, it’s joint care, there is no primary or secondary. It’s equal! “