Forbidden Word (phrase): biologically male

biologic adj. 1 : of or relating to biology or to life and living processes 2 :  used in or produced by applied biology — biological adj — biologically adv

from Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, Mass., G. & C. Merriam Co, 1967.

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male adj 1 On the average, male babies weigh more at birth than female ones: masculine, of the sex that fathers young; manly, manlike.
— n 2 Males are generally taller than females: a male person or animal; man, youth, boy; (variously) stallion, tomcat, billy goat, bull, rooster, ram
Ant. 1, 2 female, woman. 2 feminine.

Word Origin: Male comes from Latin masculus, male, from which we also get masculine.

from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.

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example sentences: biologically male

No one, whether cis or trans, gets to choose what sex they’re assigned at birth. This term is preferred to “biological male/female”, “male/female bodied”, “natal male/female”, and “born male/female”, which are defamatory and inaccurate.
— from Terminology list. (n.d.). Kent State University.

A person with XY chromosomes usually has male sex and reproductive organs, and is therefore usually assigned biologically male.
— from Sex and Gender Identity. (n.d.-b). Planned Parenthood.

Headline: Feds formalize policy allowing biological males to serve prison sentences in women’s prisons.
— from Dzsurdzsa, C. (2022, May 11). Feds formalize policy allowing biological males to serve prison sentences in women’s prisons. True North.

April 8, 2025
Hudson Valley, New York

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