Sky News host Rita Panahi says the Andrews government wholeheartedly embraces the “absurd and divisive” doctrine of identity politics amid the release of its revised LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Language Guide for public servants.

Ms Panahi said the guide was released to ensure “harmful terms such as ‘Mr and Mrs, he and she, and husband and wife’ are replaced with non-gendered, often grammatically incoherent but always politically correct terms such as ‘they and them’.”

“The guide advises public servants to never assume a person’s gender or pronouns and to practice their PC language and to always apologise if they – God forbid – inadvertently misgender a member of the QTIPOC communities.

“If you don’t push back against this madness, then don’t complain when it becomes the norm and we are all expected to list our pronouns on our CVs, Twitter and workplace profiles, or be deemed ‘trans-exclusionary bigots’.”