There seems to be some confusion among Republicans in Congress as to what exactly a woman is—perhaps because there are so few women among them. It’s a bit surprising to see this debate proliferating ...

Stuff like: “Well, I have to say that there are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is. I mean, you look at the definition within the Equality Act, and I think it just says ...

A judge rejected a lawsuit to block a trans woman Artemis Langford (circled) from Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming, saying it's not the court's place to define a woman.

As part of a slew of anti-trans attacks, Republicans spent the better part of 2022 trying (and failing) to prove that they could easily define what makes someone a “woman.” The result: Dictionary.com ...

Although it is generally agreed that language differentiates humans from other animals, there’s less agreement as to why. Many scholars, notably Noam Chomsky, have argued that it’s grammar that makes ...

Health Secretary Brendan Murphy was asked for a definition of woman by Liberal Senator Alex Antic during Senate Estimates in April, but chose to take the question on notice. “Look, I think there are a ...

Words are more than simply groups of symbols that describe sounds or symbols that describe abstract ideas. Words are “totems.” The first Europeans to reach what is now the American Northwest saw huge, ...