The Girls' Schools Association (GSA) has issued advice to a Belfast school to ‘not use the terms girls, young women or young ladies’ when addressing pupils in certain circumstances. They say that ‘pupils’ or ‘students’ would be appropriate terms for addressing those in the classroom, particularly when transgender pupils are present. The association represents the heads of many of the top performing day and boarding schools in the UK independent schools sector. The advice also recommends creating unisex lavatories.