A MELBOURNE man is petitioning the Queen to introduce a gender-neutral word to describe people, because he claims that “his” and “her” are sexist.

Just days after the Greens sponsored a campaign for parents to buy children gender-neutral toys this Christmas, Jonathan Crabtree wants to change the way we talk.

The political correctness campaigner has urged people to sign a petition to Queen Elizabeth II to add the word hier — pronounced hee-er — to the English language.

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“For the Queen to use the word ‘hier’ would be a great gift for future generations of boys and girls and in a way I’ve given her the opportunity to give that gift,” Mr Crabtree said.

“When people put the word twerk in the Oxford dictionary just because Miley Cyrus did a dance at the MTV awards then surely we can get hier in the dictionary. This would do a lot more to help boys and girls than twerking.”

Mr Crabtree, 53, of Sea­holme in Melbourne’s west, comes from a line of equal rights campaigners.

His mother, Judith Crabtree, was one of the first people to write gender neutral books for children in the 1970s.

Liberal MP Bernie Finn, who represents Melbourne’s west, was not a fan of the proposal labelling it as “further proof that some people just have far too much spare time”.

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