As part of the left’s relentless and stomach-churning attempt to redefine gender and sex, USA TodayThe Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn asked Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Jackson to clarify her question. “what is a woman”Keep insisting “science says there’s no simple answer”Oder “sufficient way” to identify whether someone’s a woman.
In other words, forget one’s genitalia as anyone can be a woman. And, as the piece argued, you’re not only sexist to question it, but it’s the latest incarnation of insulting women dating back to slavery.
Reporter Alia E. Dastagir found it worthy of going down this road in an article from the paper’s “Health & Wellness” section with this headline: “Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define ‘woman.’ Science says there’s no simple answer.”
Over the course of almost 1,200 words, Dastagir’s impious take served as reminder that, for all the left waxes poetic about facts, science, and the truth, the only acceptable versions are whatever self-worshipping visions the mob conjures up, even if it disregards basic anatomy you learn in middle school.
Dastagir weighed in even before the actual article, writing in the “Key Points” section that “[t]here is no sufficient way to clearly define what makes someone a woman.”
For the article, she began with a review of Blackburn and Jackson, as well as how it came about amid transgenderism becoming a major issue in American politics (including the Lia Thomas case).
Shortly thereafter, things few off the rails as Dastagir consulted academics (including “philosophers”) and came away with the notion that even “a competent biologist” can’t “offer a definitive answer” or a woman because “there is no sufficient way” since “there is much variation.”
Dastagir then cited a gender studies professor from the far-left Barnard College who praised Jackson’s non-answer since “science” can’t “offer a simple, definitive answer.”
In the next section, it got even worse with Dastagir arguing it’s incorrect to adopt “a simple binary”For determining the gender of a male or female, consider their extremities. “the reality, gender experts say, is more complex.”
After the Barnard professor claimed there’s no “single ‘biological’ answer,” the USA Today hack explained there’s “six different biological markers” in the body that “don’t” all have to “align” (click “expand”):
There is no single biological answer for the question of what makes a woman a woman. Jordan-Young stated that there is no single biological answer for the question “What makes a woman a girl?”
There are at least six different biological markers of “sex” in the body: genitals, chromosomes, gonads, internal reproductive structures, hormone ratios and secondary sex characteristics. None of the six is strictly dichotomous, Jordan-Young said, and the different markers don’t always align.
Sarah Richardson, an Harvard scholar, historian, and philosopher of biology, stated that Jackson’s answer is accurate and reflects the law. Although U.S. law is still a contested area for conceptualization and definition, there are many biological reasons that support sex categorization.
Richardson stressed, like Jordan Young, that biology doesn’t provide a single answer to the question about what makes a woman unique.
Dastagir took things in a racial direction, insinuating those questioning someone’s womanhood (i.e. saying Lia Thomas isn’t a woman) were akin to those who supported slavery and thus viewed African-American woman not as women but as property.
Of course, the late Phyllis Schlafly also had to mess up their funhouse (click “expand”):
This category has been politically controversial for many years. According to her, Black women weren’t always accepted in the group. For instance, the 19th Amendment gave women the right of vote but for many decades, Black women weren’t allowed to exercise it. There would have been bathrooms designated for “men”, “women” or “colored” during Jim Crow. White supremacy has been a long-held view that denied women the right to be recognized as Black women or women of color.
Williams suggested that one could also consider the era of Phyllis Schlafly who was an activist and attorney, and was the face of conservative women during the 1970s. She fought against the Equal Rights Amendment which would have made discrimination based on sex illegal. Williams claimed that Schlafly thought women should be housemakers and was fundamental in defining the woman category.
She stated that there was an attempt to create a definition of womanhood around the roles of nurture and mothering. This suggested that society where women have equal rights would lead to a genderless society. In other words, women would stop acting as women if they stopped being like them.
The quest for having a world eclipsing Sodom and Gomorrah wouldn’t have been complete without a section defending Thomas, so Dastagir griped: “Gender scholars and trans activists argue that critics are focused on Thomas’ assignment as male at birth as the sole reason for her excellence.”
Zooming out to cap things off, Dastagir reiterated her twisted thesis that “no one can legislate science” even though, as she herself and her so-called experts insisted, the science doesn’t actually solve this (wholly unnecessary) back-and-forth on gender.
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