With states like North Carolina insisting on turning back progress on transgender rights, influential dictionary company Merriam-Webster have just added the terms “cisgender” and “genderqueer” to its ...

On Wednesday, Merriam-Webster caught up to speed with two words people have been using to describe their gender identity for at least a decade, adding "cisgender" and "genderqueer" to its unabridged ...

"It took years for the term to take off, and it was not until 2016 that it entered both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Dictionary," the author writes. I coined the term “cisgender” ...

Queer people have always found ways to bend the rules. The dictionary is just trying to keep up. Last week, Merriam-Webster added the words cisgender, genderqueer and the gender-neutral title Mx. to ...

Transphobia. Cisgender. Genderqueer. These and a handful of other au courant terms used to talk about gender have officially made it into Merriam-Webster's unabridged dictionary. Founded in 1928, ...

“The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms,” said Socrates, and the wise people who watch over the definitions contained in the Merriam-Webster unabridged dictionary have revealed a playful ...