Educators at a North Carolina public school district have been ordered to avoid using gender-specific pronouns when addressing pupils, according to a recently published training manual.

A slideshow presentation, entitled "Supporting Transgender Students," provides guidance for the upcoming school year to K-12 teachers of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, directing them how to properly handle students with gender identity issues.

"Transgendered," "transsexual," "transvestite," "MtF or FtM," "Cross Dresser," and "Drag Queen/King," are all terms teachers are instructed to avoid in order to "maximize academic achievement for every child."

Instead, the slideshow suggests, teachers should familiarize themselves with terms such as "Questioning," "Cisgender," "Non-binary," "Genderqueer,' and "Gender nonconforming."

A worksheet with a purple unicorn appears amid the instructional, which students are intended to fill out with their own gender identities.