Proposed House Rules Seek to Erase Gendered Terms Such as ‘Father, Mother, Son, Daughter’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 30, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Leaders in the House of Representatives announced on Friday a rules package for the 117th Congress that includes a proposal to use “gender-inclusive language” and eliminate gendered terms such as “‘father, mother, son, daughter,” and more.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern (D-Mass.) announced on Friday that the rules package includes changes that would “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.”