Oxford Dictionary adds 18 LGBT words in 2022 including 'brotherboy, sistergirl, teahouse, pangender, multisexual, TERF.' A brotherboy is a person registered as female at birth who identifies with a masculine gender expression typically through behaviors culturally associated with masculinity.

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[–]RedEyedWarriorThe Evil Cishomo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

TERF has been around for years. I thought Oxford Dictionary already added it.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The New Statesman has a write up on the decision about adding Terf to the OED in June 2022. Interestingly, they chose not to designate it as derogatory.

They also have this explanation of the work they do.

The OED has been undergoing revision since 1993, when work on a third edition began – a mammoth undertaking that is the subject of a long read in this week’s New Statesman. The OED’s lexicographers update existing entries to include new meanings and reflect modern sensibilities, as well as adding entirely new words – in the process creating a lexical record of the way language, and culture, is changing. Their progress is published quarterly online.