I haven’t been following the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson. However, this exchange tells me everything I need to know about her.
Jackson claims she can’t define what a woman is because she is “not a biologist.” That is a clear signal KBJ is more interested in liberal activism than facts or truth. And the fact she claims you have to be a biologist to know what a woman is means she buys into the left’s delusion that trans-activism is based on science. The biological answer to that question is trivial: a person with two X chromosomes. Children learn that in the 5th grade (at least they used to.) There haven’t been any great advances in the biology of sex in recent years.
All the recent changes to the definition of “woman” have come from the gender studies departments. You know, the social scientists. Or as rational people like to refer to them: not scientists at all. The terms gender and sex were synonymous for eons. Then one day, some gender studies “researchers” “discovered” that gender is actually a social construct decoupled from biological sex. They co-opted the word “woman” to mean how an individual feels inside and chooses to identify to the world. Then, they amazingly started discovering new genders right and left. And they act like all these genders are real things that they have uncovered, and not something they made up themselves out of whole cloth.
The trans activists could have invented a new word to describe how someone self-identifies, but they chose to steal the words “woman” and “gender” instead. The tactics of this co-option are intentional. The trans-activists want to separate “woman” from “female”, but only when it suits their agenda. When it serves their purposes, they still treat the two terms as synonymous. It is a kind of verbal shell game. And it is intended to obscure the utter silliness of their ideas and give a false patina of science and scholarship to their lunar rantings. Had they invented new terms for all the goofy ideas that they pulled from their butts, the absurdity would have been even more blatant.
I’m 100% certain Ketanji Brown Jackson knows what a woman is. But the left wants to redefine the word to mean nothing at all. Other than how a particular person is feeling inside at any given time. The left basically wants to undefine the word “woman”, so that it can mean anything they need it to mean at any given time to fit with their agenda. That Jackson would choose to bow to political correctness over acknowledging scientific fact in a Senate hearing should be disqualifying. We need Justices on the Court who will faithfully interpret the Constitution to ensure it is followed. Not activists who will ignore the plain meaning of words when they don’t fit an agenda. When the plain words of the Constitution cease to mean what they say, then they mean nothing at all. We no longer have liberty or self-government. We have the tyranny of activist lawyers.