Cambridge Dictionary has finally made the term female inclusive, took them long enough. "She was the school's first trans athlete"

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It's about time the word female was updated in dictionaries to its true meaning, inclusive of males. Don't know why it took so long for this to happen.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/female

The Cambridge dictionary has always been a second rank dictionary.

I can’t access the OED from my phone but AI tells me their definition remains firmly exclusive (as all definitions should be) and I’m pretty sure that’s right - will double check when I’m at work.

Absolutely nobody is assigned a gender at birth.

Language works as a label. A signifier.

Words don't signify what something is as much as what it is not.

Eg. The definition of cat must be so broad as to include everything from wild lions to tiny Munchkins but so specific as to not accidentally include any other species.

Once you have exceptions that include something other than was originally intended, the word becomes meaningless and, therefore, unusable.

They won’t be indifferent to a lack of sales or usage of their useless “dictionary”. They’ve always been outgunned by the OED and this is merely another nail in their coffin.

That you think including men in the category of female has no impact shows your absolute indifference to women and girls. I hope you don’t have daughters.

Well….someone might accurately have said that about Lia the swimmer or Emily the cyclist before the sporting bodies began to regain their sanity and fairness.

Your entire premise is false i do know what it feels like to have body dismorphia is suffered it as a teen. Yes I do understand UK law and think that the GRA is bad law as it creates a legal falsely.
And yes allowing men/males to be legally recognised as or to claim to be women/female has a massive tangible effect on women/females (the non male type) it erases us and removes both our rights and the words we need/use to describe ourselves our needs and what it means to be the sex class that evolved to produce large immotile gammites and carry and birthing children (formally known as female).
You do understand that women have human rights and a right to live with dignity and that's not possible if you allow men with an "identity" to use womens spaces, rights and words

So you don't understand what it means to be transgender, you don't understand UK law, you don't understand that giving a minority the right to a dignified life has no tangible effect on females.

Firstly, UK law has been clarified and it means exactly that the terms male and female; man and wan refer explicitly and exclusively to.people born into that sex.

Secondly, if the term female is changed to include males, then the tangible effect on women is that the word becomes meaningless and there is no single easily understood, unequivocal signifier for actual women. If something can't be identified specifically in language it ceases to 'technically' exist.

In much the same way as in other languages there are words to signify things that we don't have words for in English. So we simply never refer to them, acknowledge them or consider them in any meaningful way.

Female is not an adjective pertaining to gender. Female pertains exclusively to sex (of which there are two: female and male).

The adjective pertaining to gender is feminine.

This is not any sort of natural evolution of language. This is a deliberate attempt at distorting language, making language unclear and therefore making it harder to use.

This is hostile colonisation.

Look up their definition of woman.
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I think somehow this is even worse, given not a single female to male transgender sports person has won, anything? right?

Anyway. Glad the ladies are welcoming the males into their groups now well done all.

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What are you on about?

This was all clarified in the Supreme Court last April precisely because women weren't accepting it.

’colonization’ is right, or ‘hostile takeover’.
Trans activists want women to have no way to describe ourselves as distinct from usurping males other than the one we explicitly reject ‘cis women’.
Well, no. Back in the real world and normal usage, ‘woman’ means ‘adult human female’. Female refers to sex (well, and electrical connectors and oddly everyone knows exactly which is male and which is female there without explanation).
Words with distinct commonly understood meanings are required for accurate communication and laws.

I think the OP is being sarcastic :)

But then the Cambridge English Dictionary was never an authoritative publication, was it !

It seems like a very odd move considering how much the tide has turned in my experience. I and several other women at work are openly GC, there has been open support for visible media stories such as JKR being GC by celebrities and their ilk (usually captured and fawning to retain their popular status), the Supreme Court ruling etc. Being unquestioningly trans inclusive feels very 2021 to me?!

Oddly enough, it doesn’t include the word ‘transwoman’ at all.
Almost like they’re not really interested in reflecting widely used language at all.

Maybe :)

Quite surprised 30% of voters think this is OK TBH :)

We don’t play those silly games in my family. We’re all of sound mind and recognize male or female. That’s probably why there’s no mass confusion in mine.

Using bonkers terminology like "assigned at birth" is sort of playing these silly games though.

They’re probably clocking your name and hence the sarcasm.

He was still a boy, that should not have been allowed to entertain such nonsense while a schoolchild.

Fixed it for you