'Woman' now defined as anyone who 'identifies as female': Cambridge Dictionary
Culture,Women's Issues,LGBTQ Issues,Transgender Issues,Culture War
There's a new definition of the word "woman" in the pages of the Cambridge Dictionary, and it is an outright lie. In addition to the word "woman" being defined as "adult female human being," a second, alternate definition now reads, "an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth."
For anyone who may be unclear, the only people defined under the second definition are actually men. In other words, the definition of "woman" now contains its opposite, making the word itself absolutely meaningless. By redefining women as a wish, a feeling, a manifestation of mind, women are erased entirely. Women do not exist if they cannot be defined. If women cannot say what they are, they cannot express who they are. If men claim women's bodies, women's spaces, and women's language, then women and women's issues are no longer able to be discussed honestly.
This latest definition, as Christopher Rufo points out, is a recent addition. And as Charlie Kirk notes, this latest definition means that "A woman is someone who says they are a woman which is a word we cannot define so we define it by using the term in the defintion." The definition of man has been similarly changed.
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