A Court Finally Answered The ‘What Is A Woman?’ Question — And They Got It Wrong

More than two years after the release of my film “What is a Woman?,” it’s still impossible to get a straight answer to that question from gender activists, liberal professors and political commentators on the Left. They might call you “weird” for asking the question, or call you a transphobe, or call the police. But whatever they do, they won’t respond in any meaningful way to a question that, throughout all of human history up until very recently, has been extremely easy for every living person to answer. They won’t tell you the truth, which is that a woman is an adult human female. Instead, they’ll tell you that the definition of a “woman” is whatever you want it to be.

One of the many reasons this approach isn’t sustainable is that it’s extremely important, from a practical perspective, to have a functional definition of the word “woman.” This isn’t some abstract philosophical exercise. We need a definition of the word “woman” in order to interpret our laws, including the various pieces of civil rights legislation that have been passed over the years. And yet, there haven’t been a lot of court cases addressing the issue. Instead, major legal battles concerning gender ideology have primarily focused on the area of so-called “trans medicine.” The legal issues in those cases — including the landmark Sixth Circuit case upholding Tennessee’s ban on child castration — are about the degree of supposed “consensus” in the medical field on the issue of whether children should be sterilized. They’re about the rights of parents to decide what physicians do to their children but they’re not really about this fundamental, underlying issue — which is the most basic question of all, which is what it means for someone to be a woman, or a man.