(Daily Wire) The Cambridge Dictionary recently updated its definitions of “man” and “woman” to include people whose gender identity doesn’t correspond with their biological sex.
The definition of “man” in the online version includes a second meaning: “an adult who lives and identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
The example sentences alongside the definition include:
- Mark is a trans man (= a man who was said to be female when they were born).
- Their doctor encouraged them to live as a man for a while before undergoing surgical transition.
The definition of “woman” also includes a second definition that similarly reads “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth.”
One of the example sentences includes, “mary (sic) is a woman who was assigned male at birth.”
Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, brought attention to the news in a Twitter post on Monday.
“Cambridge Dictionary just dropped a new definition of ‘woman,’” Rufo tweeted.
Cambridge Dictionary just dropped a new definition of “woman.” pic.twitter.com/qDb17DJP5H
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) December 12, 2022
Rufo also observed that the new definition used the pronoun “they” to describe a woman instead of “she.”
