Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #199 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 26 Jan 2021 › Segment 2 of 36
A clip on parent titles for LGBTQIA+ families, and gender-neutral language
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth plays and reacts to a clip on alternative parent titles in LGBTQIA+ families and comments on gender-neutral language, saying people forget humans are part of nature.
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After a brief comic clip, Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip suggesting words that parents in the LGBTQIA+ community might be addressed by instead of mother or father, and reacts with incomprehension. He says he does not know whether such things exist only on social media, mentions hearing that teachers were told not to call the pupils of a girls' school girls, and a recommendation he attributes to the British Medical Association [?] to say pregnant people rather than pregnant women, which he says he would need to check. He says people forget that humans, however remarkable, are part of nature.
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i thought well cello let's keep it simple and always in speaking of uh major matters um oh good afternoon i was hoping to speak to tess please oh right okay uh it's test tickle [Music] uh testicle [Laughter]
i'm so sorry sorry all right so people important matters first speaking of important matters somebody had sent me um a a clip oh afternoon it can be hard for parents within the lgbtqia plus community to find a word that they feel comfortable being addressed as children
so here are some examples nope nori karen what the hell is wrong with this girl and cece you can find more examples on the website how was that what the hell was that people that 12 000 of you are following me thank you so much i love you
seriously what the hell was that people what the hell was that i honestly don't understand um you know knowing tiendo nintendo what is going on maybe some of the the uber woke folk can explain it but uh i don't i don't get it man you know the people are just causing so much confusion i see all these things uh nowadays i don't know whether it's just on social media or is it in the world like that as well or is it just what we see on social media and you know all this
oh um i i watched something where teachers were saying you shouldn't really refer to the girls in the girls school as girls or something like you should refer to them [Laughter] what is happening to this world honestly and i've read something that the um what was it the um the royal i mean i'm trying to i don't want to misquote which
society but it was a i mean a top accredited well reputable society the british medical um right but i'll have to find the quote again but that they had sent out an email that they were actually that their suggestion was you stop referring to women as that were pregnant you should replace the term not as pregnant women but as pregnant people
i honestly don't know what's going on with the world is this what preoccupies the the mind of the of the conscientious i don't know man what is happening what is happening seriously this things are we forget that look we are part of nature we ain't different you know we ain't something sure we're in you know an an intriguing amazing anomalous aspect of nature but we are still part and parcel of nature just i don't know right so what
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 26). A clip on parent titles for LGBTQIA+ families, and gender-neutral language [Video, segment 2021-01-26b-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/2/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "A clip on parent titles for LGBTQIA+ families, and gender-neutral language." Video, segment 2021-01-26b-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 26, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/2/
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@misc{abulayth-2021-01-26b-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{A clip on parent titles for LGBTQIA+ families, and gender-neutral language}}, year = {2021}, month = {1}, date = {2021-01-26}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2021-01-26b-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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