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Nominee for the Supreme Court of the USA can't define what a woman is

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GoodnessTruthBeauty · 23/03/2022 14:26

For anyone that said the fights over Gender Ideology were a storm in a teacup and no big deal, we now have a female judge nominated for the most powerful national Court in the world who refuses to define what a woman is.
m.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/22/ketanji-brown-jackson-says-she-cant-provide-defini/

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samyeagar · 23/03/2022 15:09

@FreelanceFiona

I didn't say I agreed with it. Just that I can understand why she said it. I'm still hoping there are high profile lefties out there who will support women.
The problem is, I don't think there are. The democratic party in the USA is so broken right now, but has gained so much political inertia, I don't think there is any way to stop where it is going and change course.

I mean, what we are seeing right here in this confirmation is exactly what we the democrats said was going to happen. Biden campaigned on the title IX reforms, and day one executive orders in support of TRA. Biden campaigned on a black female as primary criteria supreme court nominee. Those two things were inexorably tied together. This was no secret. Democrats elected him to do excatly what we are seeing here. This is what they voted for.

RayonSunrise · 23/03/2022 15:01

You'd think it would be helpful to know what a woman is when they're facing the rollback of Roe vs Wade.

FreelanceFiona · 23/03/2022 14:57

I didn't say I agreed with it. Just that I can understand why she said it. I'm still hoping there are high profile lefties out there who will support women.

samyeagar · 23/03/2022 14:55

@FreelanceFiona

I think she had no choice but to fudge it. To answer either way would have been pounced on as prejudice/bias. While I would have loved her to say 'a biological female' I can understand why she wriggled out of it in the current climate. She hasn't got the job yet!
And the inability to state a biological fact when directly asked should be an automatic disqualifier.
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GoodnessTruthBeauty · 23/03/2022 14:54

So depressing. I'm in the US and was listening to the Senate nomination hearings in the car yesterday and she seemed so talented and intelligent with the ability to defend herself very well. She also claimed not to be an activist judge. I was surprised and wondered if this was finally someone who hadn't been handpicked by the TRAs who are clearly lobbying at very high levels of government. Nope I was wrong, that's exactly why she was chosen because challenges against sporting bodies on behalf of women are coming before the Supreme Court in the next 12 months. So depressing how the Left have abandoned women's rights.

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FreelanceFiona · 23/03/2022 14:52

I think she had no choice but to fudge it. To answer either way would have been pounced on as prejudice/bias. While I would have loved her to say 'a biological female' I can understand why she wriggled out of it in the current climate. She hasn't got the job yet!

samyeagar · 23/03/2022 14:51

This is the reality of the political left. At least the political right are exactly who they say they are.

Pretty clear lines drawn in the USA on this right now.

Either being an actual, biological woman, but losing abortion access in some states...

Or abortion access everywhere, but lose actual biological woman safe spaces everywhere.

Pretty pathetic to think that it may actually be easier to convince a republican to become pro-choice than it is to convince a democrat to become pro-woman.

NecessaryScene · 23/03/2022 14:44

I would like someone to ask is she a woman and how does she know that?

Didn't someone try that of a Labour TWAW MP?

I seem to recall a flustered/indignant/transphobic "of course I am, just look at me" response, suggesting the point had not been understood...

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GoodnessTruthBeauty · 23/03/2022 14:41

I would like someone to ask is she a woman and how does she know that?

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EdgeOfACoin · 23/03/2022 14:37

Her job will be to apply the law not make it.

Can't apply it unless you understand it.

EdgeOfACoin · 23/03/2022 14:35

Definitions of words are integral to the practice of law.

Every legal contract sets out a list of definitions at the start so there can be no misinterpretation as to its terms.

A supreme court judge must know this!

What the hell is wrong with the USA these days?!?!

ChimneyPot · 23/03/2022 14:35

I think she is wise to avoid the question.
No matter what she says it will upset half the people needed to confirm her.
Her job will be to apply the law not make it.

Lottapianos · 23/03/2022 14:29

Honestly, it's just beyond pathetic. An accomplished woman, a skilled and talented woman applying for an intensely serious job, playing this dumb? Just shameful