Its a new English word that is widely used; it may not yet have been picked up by dictionaries, which are trailing catalogs of usage, but that doesn't make it “not a word”.
No it's not.
>it may not yet have been picked up by dictionaries, which are trailing catalogs of usage, but that doesn't make it “not a word”.
It's not picked up by dictionaries because it's not a word. Its small usage by activist does not make it a word.
NIST in the US and the National Cyber Security Center in the UK, as well as much of the industry, use the term, but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, a word in use.
In the wake of the "Summer of Love", some ideologues at NIST decided to jump on the band wagon and created an internal memo about "inclusive language". They ironically did not define the new terms, did not include them in their definition documentation, and was for internal use only as a guide, not requirements.
>but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, a word in use.
but go ahead and persist in your ideologically-based denial that it is, in fact, not a word.