Democrats can’t escape the ‘what is a woman’ question |
“What is a woman?” is not supposed to be a trick question. But a truly bizarre unwillingness to answer simple variations of this question has turned it into a potent ideological weakness that isn’t going away for the Democratic Party. Just last week, multiple examples of high-level progressives and Democrats dodging it have gone viral.
First, on Tuesday, during Supreme Court oral arguments over the legality of state-level legislation banning biologically male transgender athletes from women and girls sports, conservative Justice Samuel Alito asked an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the transgender athletes, “For equal protection purposes … [there needs to be] an understanding of what it means to be a boy or a girl or man or a woman … What is that definition?”
Her response?
“We do not have a definition for the court.” Yes, seriously: That’s how........