Additional entries to the words 'man' and 'woman' can now be seen in the Cambridge Dictionary to include transgender people. | via philstarlife
by the dictionary as"an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth."
Some examples of the word in use include,"She was the first trans woman elected to a national office" and"Mary is a woman who was assigned male at birth." The dictionary's editors made the change after studying how the words were being used across society. “They carefully studied usage patterns of the word woman and concluded that this definition is one that learners of English should be aware of to support their understanding of how the language is used,” Sophie White, a spokeswoman with Cambridge University Press and Assessment, toldHowever, Cambridge is not the first to adapt its definition to include transgender individuals.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also worked to normalize language erasing biological lines between men and women. In its
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