The main reason the left wins is the way they manipulate language. They’re not progressive, and they sure as heck aren’t liberals.
Cambridge Dictionary took another step by changing the definition of “woman” and “man” to include transgenders.
Merriam-Webster already changed the definition in July.
From The Telegraph:
It now states that as well as definitions including an “adult female human being”, a woman can also be “an adult who lives and identifies as female though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth”.It gives the examples: “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 changes after studying patterns of how the word “woman” was being used across society, and concluded that the new definition is one that English learners “should be aware of”.
The Cambridge Dictionary also updated its definition of “man”. As well as definitions including “an adult male human being” and “the human race”, it now includes the definition: “an adult who lives and identifies as male though they may have been said to have a different sex at birth”.It also gives two examples: “Mark is a trans man (= a man who was said to be female when they were born)” and “their doctor encouraged them to live as a man for a while before undergoing surgical transition”.
Apparently, it’s okay because the first definition of “woman” remains “an adult female human being.”
I thought the left was all about science:
“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. The first definition at the entry for woman remains unchanged and continues to be ‘an adult female human being’.“Our dictionaries are written for learners of English and are designed to help users understand English as it is currently used.“They are compiled by analysing a large corpus of English texts (over two billion words in total) taken from all areas of writing and publishing, which allows us to see exactly how language is used.“We regularly update our dictionary to reflect changes in how English is used, based on analysis of data from this corpus.”
Watch how the media frames the story.
The Washington Post reported that the Cambridge Dictionary *updated* the definition: Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of ‘woman’ to include trans women
Even The Telegraph, which I cited and first reported the change: Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of ‘woman’
Evening Standard: Cambridge Dictionary updates definition of ‘woman’ to include transgender people
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