Please stand: The Conservative movement offers a gender-neutral call to the Torah.

It is important for a person to be called by a name with no embarrassing connotations, both Rabbi Scheinberg and the teshuva continued. So a committee of three -- rabbis Austrian, Scheinberg, and Deborah Silver of Shir Chadash in Metairie, Louisiana -- proposed the gender-neutral call. The teshuva "included some historical background about the practice of calling people up to the Torah by name, which is a general but not universal practice", Rabbi Scheinberg said. [Extracted from the article]