{"id":2008,"date":"2015-07-05T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=2008"},"modified":"2015-07-05T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:15:51","slug":"cisgender-added-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/2008","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Cisgender&#8217; added to the Oxford English Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Mack Freeman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word &#8216;cisgender&#8221; is one of 500 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/06\/25\/oxford-english-dictionary-adds-cisgender-alongside-twerk\/\">new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary<\/a> this year. It has been defined as &#8221; someone whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth.&#8221; A word has to be in common use for ten years before it is included in the dictionary. Other words included in this year&#8217;s additions are &#8220;meh,&#8221; &#8220;twerk,&#8221; and &#8220;hot mess.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Mack Freeman The word &#8216;cisgender&#8221; is one of 500 new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary this year. It has been defined as &#8221; someone whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth.&#8221; A word has to be in common use for ten years before it is included in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58],"tags":[185,186,187],"class_list":["post-2008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","tag-cisgender","tag-nomenclature","tag-oed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}