Phil, repeatedly challenging two nonbinary panelists to answer it. Rachel Levine, telling The Hill that HRC “thinks it can define character and patriotism while it apparently can’t even define male and female.” Daily Wire personality Matt Walsh - who has compared medical care for trans youth to “molestation and rape” - similarly deployed this supposed gotcha question in a January 19 appearance on the daytime television show Dr. In this commercial parody, Schmitts Gay beer helps two guys (Adam Sandler, Chris Farley) transform a dumpy house-sitting situation into a fun, gay party hous. In August 2020, Ellis repeated the line after misgendering the Biden administration official Adm. In January 2020, The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro tweeted “define woman” in response to a TIME article with the headline “ It Matters That Elizabeth Warren Is a Woman.” In June 2020, Shapiro responded to a tweet from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), tweeting, “Can you define the word ‘woman’?” While Ellis made the link to the court nomination, the idea that the left-wing is somehow unable to define what a woman is has been a right-wing meme for several years. Supreme Court pick didn’t seem to have an answer for.” Blackburn appeared on Fox News’ America Reports to further press her case, though she also failed to provide a working definition of “woman” when asked. On Wednesday morning, Fox & Friends aired the exchange, with co-host Steve Doocy saying, “It’s all about trying to get into her head to figure out if she sat on the Supreme Court for the rest of her life, what sort of judicial direction she would go in.” Later, anchor Harris Faulkner teased her 11 o’clock show by saying the definition of a woman is “just one of the questions the president’s new U.S.
Jackson’s refusal to provide Blackburn with an answer to her question has sparked considerable outrage in the right-wing media.
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked her to “provide a definition for the word woman.” While the exchange has gained traction in right-wing media’s coverage of the hearings, the question is just the latest version of a tired meme used by anti-trans figures since at least the Trump presidency - including in the context of the Supreme Court nomination days after President Joe Biden announced that he would choose a Black woman to fill the seat of retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. At the confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen.