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The Baltimore university removed its “LGBTQ Glossary” from its website after being accused of erasing women over the glossary’s strained definition of the term “lesbian” as a “non-man attracted to non-men.”

On Wednesday, the university was backpedaling.

“The LGBTQ Glossary serves as an introduction to the range of identities and terms that are used within LGBTQ communities, and is not intended to serve as the definitive answers as to how all people understand or use these terms,” the university said in a statement on its website.

The university also said the glossary failed to go through the proper channels before being posted on the Office of Diversity and Inclusion page.

“While the glossary is a resource posted on the website of the Johns Hopkins University Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI); the definitions were not reviewed or approved by ODI leadership and the language in question has been removed pending review,” the statement said.

The university’s retreat came after blowback from gender-ideology critics like author J.K. Rowling, who noted that the definition of “gay man” included the word “man.”

“Man: no definition needed,” Ms. Rowling tweeted. “Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there’s no man-ness.”

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