{"id":1403926,"date":"2022-03-28T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403926"},"modified":"2022-03-28T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T12:00:51","slug":"townhall-com-staff-weve-defined-woman-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/townhall-com-staff-weve-defined-woman-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Townhall.com Staff: We\u2019ve Defined \u201cWoman\u201d for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftownhall-com-staff-weve-defined-woman-for-you%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403926&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"contributor-img pull-left\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/townhallcomstaff\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Townhall.com Staff\" class=\"img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/contributor-sm\/authorimages\/\/fea8668e-9d03-46a4-a1e3-2fe56db1f8e6.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Posted: Mar 26, 2022 12:01 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p><em>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Over the last few days, there has been much &#8220;debate&#8221; over the word &#8220;woman&#8221; and how to define it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The discussion over the proper definition of the word erupted across social media and news publications thanks to a basic question posed by Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) during the Senate Judiciary Committee&#8217;s hearings regarding the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you provide a definition for the word &#8216;woman&#8217;?&#8221; Sen. Blackburn asked during her line of questioning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t&#8230; Not in this context \u2014 I&#8217;m not a biologist,&#8221; Judge Jackson <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/03\/23\/the-first-black-woman-nominated-to-the-supreme-court-cant-define-woman-n2604920\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">replied<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite not being a biologist or having a background in biology, one would expect Judge Jackson, a Harvard Law School graduate, would be capable of providing even a rudimentary definition of the word. Of course, the liberal media rushed to Judge Jackson&#8217;s defense, with USA Today Wellness Reporter Alia E. Dastagir writing, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/health-wellness\/2022\/03\/24\/marsha-blackburn-asked-ketanji-jackson-define-woman-science\/7152439001\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Marsha Blackburn asked Ketanji Brown Jackson to define &#8216;woman.&#8217; Science says there&#8217;s no simple answer.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>With all of this confusion around the definition of &#8220;woman,&#8221; Townhall is here to clear everything up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster defines &#8220;woman&#8221; as &#8220;an adult female person.&#8221; To make sense of that definition, it requires us to define another word, &#8220;female.&#8221; Merriam-Webster defines &#8220;female&#8221; as &#8220;of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In simplified terms, a &#8220;woman&#8221; is a human being capable of giving birth to another human being.<\/p>\n<p>If that definition is still too confusing or not thorough enough, here are four scientific ways to know if a person is a woman:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 They have XX chromosomes<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 They were born with a uterus and ovaries<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 They have menstrual \/ ovarian cycles<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 They can give birth to another human being<\/p>\n<p>See, defining &#8220;woman&#8221; and identifying one isn&#8217;t so hard after all.<\/p>\n<p>Townhall will not allow the accomplishments of women to be erased or have their dreams crushed by biological men competing in women&#8217;s sports or winning awards such as &#8220;Woman of the Year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stand with us and help fight back against the woke, progressive left&#8217;s absurd, anti-science definition of &#8220;woman.&#8221; Support our conservative journalism and join <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/subscribe?tpcc=staffcolumn032522\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Townhall VIP<\/a>. Use promo code <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/subscribe?tpcc=staffcolumn032522\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>REALWOMEN<\/strong><\/a> at checkout for a 25% discount on your subscription.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013 Townhall Editorial Team<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Posted: Mar 26, 2022 12:01 AM  The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}