From WSJopinion: If we erase sex-specific words from our language, we erase, too, what it means to be a man or a woman. Where does it stop, asks NicoleReneeAult.
The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Mene Ukueberuwa, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: AP PhotoThe American Civil Liberties Union has apologized for excluding the word “woman” from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quotation in a tweet posted Sept. 18: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person’s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity,” as the organization rendered the statement.
But it will surely find more palatable ways to hedge the word, because doing so has become a progressive point of order. House Democrats qualified the word “woman” in a Septemberby saying the term reflects “the identity of the majority of people” who might seek an abortion: “This Act is intended to protect all people with the capacity for pregnancy—cisgender women, transgender men, non-binary individuals, those who identify with a different gender, and others.
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