Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s inability, or unwillingness, to provide a definition for the word “woman” makes for a rather silly controversy, but it highlights an important fact: Women don’t actually exist.
Such is the point of Alia Dastagir’s
piece
in USA Today. According to Dastagir, there “is no sufficient way to clearly define what makes someone a woman.” Dastagir would know, after all: She spoke to “scientists, gender law scholars, and philosophers of biology” who determined that Jackson’s nonanswer was “commendable.”
Dastagir informed us that there are “billions of women on the planet,” though it’s not clear how she knows that if no one knows what a woman is. In case it’s not clear the kind of “experts” Dastagir turned to, here is the first one she quoted: “’I don’t want to see this question punted to biology as if science can offer a simple, definitive answer,’ said Rebecca Jordan-Young, a scientist and gender studies scholar at Barnard College whose work explores the relationships between science and the social hierarchies of gender and sexuality.”
Between establishment media and their chosen “experts,” we’re clearly in good hands.
Dastagir goes on to quote gender studies expert after gender studies expert about people who are “assigned male at birth” or how during Jim Crow, black women didn’t count as women so no one can really define what a woman is. Her conclusion is the same as transgender activists who demand society bend to their worldview: The only way to determine whether people are women is if they say they are women.
In reality, we know that there are uncommon genetic disorders that do not change the fact that biological sex actually exists. Roughly 1 in 2,000 babies born with a disorder of sexual development, which makes biological sex unclear,
according
to the American Academy of Pediatrics. That is 0.05%. Even then, some disorders still point in one direction. Klinefelter syndrome “results when a boy is born with an extra copy of the X chromosome,”
according
to the Mayo Clinic (emphasis added). “Klinefelter syndrome is a genetic condition affecting males, and it often isn’t diagnosed until adulthood.”
The reason Jackson’s response is such a big deal is precisely that it exposes the ideologues such as Dastagir, who are imposing their anti-science zealotry on media, schools, and sports. They use genetic abnormalities to justify their view that men and women don’t biologically exist and are entirely interchangeable social labels. It doesn’t make any sense, but if you can’t trust gender studies professors, who can you trust?
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