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Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, 'What is a woman?'

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Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, 'What is a woman?'
A handful of Biden administration federal agencies were unable to define the meaning of the word "woman" – in some cases, even in relation to their own uses of terms such as "women's health" – when asked by Fox News Digital.

The Biden administration's Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Education, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons were all contacted by Fox News Digital requesting a definition of "woman." None of the agencies provided their definition or criteria for an individual to be categorized as a "woman," despite each boasting entire initiatives aimed at helping women and DOJ declined to comment.

Fox News Digital also reached out to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to request the organization's definition of "woman" in relation to terms such as "women's rights" and "women's healthcare." NIH describes itself as "the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation," and its purpose as "[seeking] fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems."

Woke ideology has created a conundrum where actual women are being pushed aside.

Now anyone can identify as a woman and receive preferential consideration for federal job opportunities and contracts.

This actually diminishes the very purposes and equality it was designed to create. The playing field has been tilted away from women.
 

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What is your definition of a "women"?

Would you definition hold up in court?
 

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Remember that Supreme Court Justice who said that he could not define "pornography," but ...

Well, a lot of people cannot define "woman," but they know one when they see one.

Transwomen should be given all the respect that we owe to any other human being.

But they are not "women."
 

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Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, 'What is a woman?'


Woke ideology has created a conundrum where actual women are being pushed aside.

Now anyone can identify as a woman and receive preferential consideration for federal job opportunities and contracts.

This actually diminishes the very purposes and equality it was designed to create. The playing field has been tilted away from women.
I guess they flunked biology.
 

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Oh, they're not going to play Fox's game.

How tragic.
 

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Provide a legal definition of "woman" that includes the laws of every state without any contradiction or leaving anyone out that any state recognizes as a woman.

Then provide a biological definition of woman based off of actual scientific information without contradiction or exceptions.

And then provide a sociological definition of woman without contradiction or exceptions.

Now, which one should we used?
 

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Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, 'What is a woman?'


Woke ideology has created a conundrum where actual women are being pushed aside.

Now anyone can identify as a woman and receive preferential consideration for federal job opportunities and contracts.

This actually diminishes the very purposes and equality it was designed to create. The playing field has been tilted away from women.

I'm a woman and I do just fine. Speak for yourself.
 

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Provide a legal definition of "woman" that includes the laws of every state without any contradiction or leaving anyone out that any state recognizes as a woman.

Then provide a biological definition of woman based off of actual scientific information without contradiction or exceptions.

And then provide a sociological definition of woman without contradiction or exceptions.

Now, which one should we used?
XX =/= XY
 

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Right wing incels ask that question every day...because they have never actually seen a woman naked.
One thing for certain. I do not want to see someone who identifies as a woman, but is biologically male, naked.
 

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One think for certain. I do not want to see someone who identifies as a woman, but is biologically male, naked.
I'm sure they don't want you to see them naked either, as likely is true for a whole of any other women.

Would you like to see this man naked? What about your wife/girlfriend/sister?


If we were to go off of the laws saying that people need to use the restroom, facilities of their birth sex, then that man is using the women's restroom, showers.
 

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That's a different combination, like XXY, XYY, or something else that's rare. It is not XX or XY.
No, it isn't. She is XY but has CAIS, which means her body does not absorb/react to androgens, those hormones that make men "manly".
 

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A national Crocodile Dundee tester posted at all restrooms or events. A quick pat down and any doubts are cleared up.
 

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No, it isn't. She is XY but has CAIS, which means her body does not absorb/react to androgens, those hormones that make men "manly".
XY gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, is a type of hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. Though they typically have normal female external genitalia,[1] the person has functionless gonads, fibrous tissue termed "streak gonads", and if left untreated, will not experience puberty. Such gonads are typically surgically removed (as they have a significant risk of developing cancer). The typical medical treatment is hormone replacement therapy.[2] The syndrome was

This is the 46,XY abnormaty.

 

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XY gonadal dysgenesis, also known as Swyer syndrome, is a type of hypogonadism in a person whose karyotype is 46,XY. Though they typically have normal female external genitalia,[1] the person has functionless gonads, fibrous tissue termed "streak gonads", and if left untreated, will not experience puberty. Such gonads are typically surgically removed (as they have a significant risk of developing cancer). The typical medical treatment is hormone replacement therapy.[2] The syndrome was

This is the 46,XY abnormaty.

Doesn't matter. You said that basically she doesn't count as a woman because she has XY chromosomes. Doesn't matter how abnormal her condition is. She is considered a woman, despite having XY chromosomes.
 

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This should be a GOP plank in both 2022 and 2024!
 

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It’s in the name of safety like all other assaults we allow.
 
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