According to Dictionary.com, pangender is defined as “a nonbinary gender identity for a person whose gender encompasses the entirety of the gender spectrum ...

Merriam-Webster's dictionary is adding a new entry to the definition of the pronoun “they”: a way to refer to a nonbinary individual, one who identifies as neither exclusively male nor female. It’s ...

Elle Moxley is the founder and executive director of the Marsha P. Johnson institute. Language is our battlefield. It is the arena where our struggle for recognition, acceptance, and justice plays out ...

We toss around “he,” “she,” and “they” like they've always been part of the English language, but only one of them, the pronoun "he,” actually dates back to the earliest form of English. The others?

Idaho’s Senate State Affairs Committee on Friday advanced two bills related to changing Idaho’s legal definition of the word “sex,” and protecting public employees from discipline if they refuse to ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Philosophers of language spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of the semantics of names. I am a linguist ...