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   Red <232@gmail.com> wrote in news:t00htv$25np7$74@news.freedyn.de:   
      
   > davej wrote   
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   >> One lesbian moron after another.... how stupid can you get?   
      
   The university's online glossary of LGBTQ terms and identities defined the   
   word “lesbian” as a “non-man attracted to non-men" before it was taken   
   down.   
      
   Johns Hopkins University removed an online glossary of LGBTQ terms and   
   identities this week after its definition of the word "lesbian" used the   
   term "non-men" to refer to women and some nonbinary people and fueled an   
   online uproar.   
      
   Screenshots of the glossary before it was taken down showed that the   
   university defined the word "lesbian" as a "non-man attracted to non-men."   
   It added that while past definitions have referred to lesbians as women   
   who are sexually attracted to other women, the "updated definition" is   
   intended to include nonbinary people who may identify with the label.   
      
   "The LGBTQ Glossary serves as an introduction to the range of identities   
   and terms that are used within LGBTQ communities, and is not intended to   
   serve as the definitive answers as to how all people understand or use   
   these terms," Megan Christin, the university's director of strategic   
   communications, said in a statement Wednesday. "While the glossary is a   
   resource posted on the website of the Johns Hopkins University Office of   
   Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), the definitions were not reviewed or   
   approved by ODI leadership and the language in question has been removed   
   pending review."   
      
   Christin did not respond to questions regarding when the online glossary   
   was first uploaded.   
      
   Screenshots of the glossary sparked an online firestorm in recent days,   
   with many women, including some lesbians, calling the definition   
   "misogynistic" and noting that the definition for "gay man" did not use   
   similar language, such as "non-women."   
      
   "Lesbian was literally the only word in English language that is not tied   
   to man- as in male- feMALE, man- woMAN," tennis star Martina Navratilova,   
   who is a lesbian, tweeted Monday. "And now lesbians are non men?!? Wtf?!?"   
      
      
   J.K. Rowling — who has widely been accused of being transphobic for years   
   — also chimed in on the matter, tweeting to her 14 million followers   
   Tuesday.   
      
   "Man: no definition needed. Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being   
   definable only by reference to the male," she wrote on Twitter. "An   
   absence, a vacuum where there’s no man-ness."   
      
   And on Wednesday, Nikki Haley, a Republican 2024 presidential contender   
   and a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, called the glossary's   
   definition "infuriating," weeks after she suggested that transgender girls   
   in sports are leading to suicidal ideation in teenage girls.   
      
   "This war on women has to stop," she wrote on Twitter. "First, allowing   
   biological boys to play girls’ sports. Now, defining a woman as a 'non-   
   man.'"   
      
   Haley and Navratilova did not respond to a request for further comment,   
   and Rowling declined to comment further.   
      
   The university's glossary represents the latest skirmish in an ongoing   
   battle over the integration of gender-neutral language, as more people   
   around the world neither identify as male nor female.   
      
   A global survey released by Ipsos this month found that 1.3% of the 22,514   
   participants — who were surveyed in 30 countries in the Americas, Europe   
   and Asia in February and March —  identify as nonbinary, gender-   
   nonconforming or gender fluid.   
      
   However, new research shows that the majority of Americans do not believe   
   in gender neutral identities.   
      
   A new national poll from Public Religion Research Institute, a nonpartisan   
   research group, found that 65% of all Americans believe there are only two   
   gender identities — male and female.   
      
   The poll also showed that views on gender identity are deeply divided by   
   party affiliation. Among Republicans, 90% say there are just two genders,   
   compared with 66% of independents and 44% of Democrats.   
      
   Over the last handful of years, Rowling and others have mocked gender-   
   neutral terms, including “people who menstruate,” “pregnant people" or   
   “chestfeeding.”   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/johns-hopkins-pulls-lesbian-   
   definition-uproar-use-non-men-instead-wome-rcna89307   
      
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