{"id":1515006,"date":"2022-06-14T09:20:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515006"},"modified":"2022-06-14T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:21:16","slug":"karol-markowicz-what-is-a-woman-exposes-the-lunacy-of-pro-trans-extremism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/karol-markowicz-what-is-a-woman-exposes-the-lunacy-of-pro-trans-extremism\/","title":{"rendered":"Karol Markowicz: \u201cWhat Is a Woman?\u201d Exposes the Lunacy of Pro-trans Extremism"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fkarol-markowicz-what-is-a-woman-exposes-the-lunacy-of-pro-trans-extremism%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=1515006&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/karol-markowicz.png?w=76&#038;h=69&#038;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Karol Markowicz\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/karol-markowicz.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/karol-markowicz.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What is a woman?<\/p>\n<p>What should be an easy question to answer is now considered a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/06\/06\/carolina-panthers-hire-nfls-first-transgender-cheerleader\/\">\u201cgotcha\u201d on the left. <\/a>Conservative writer Matt Walsh has produced a documentary with the question as its title, hoping to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<p>The film is a cross between Michael Moore\u2019s 1989 documentary \u201cRoger &#038; Me,\u201d where the filmmaker pursued General Motor\u2019s CEO Roger Smith, and the Borat movies in which <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/18\/sacha-baron-cohen-drops-lawsuit-over-borat-weed-billboard\/\">Sacha Baron Cohen<\/a> pretends to be clueless journalist Borat Sagdiyev from Kazakhstan making films about American culture.<\/p>\n<p>Watching Walsh engage with various experts as they make abject fools of themselves has the same cringe-inducing, face-covering sensation as Borat getting a bar to sing along with \u201cthrow the Jew down the well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Except Walsh\u2019s subjects haven\u2019t been tricked into anything. They really believe what they are saying.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michelle Forcier, a dean at Brown University medical school, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/30\/inside-the-rush-to-reassign-the-genders-of-kids\/\">refuses to concede<\/a> that there is such a thing as reality and ends up talking about suicidal chickens when Walsh asks her whether we are assigning a gender to a chicken laying an egg.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not alone. Walsh leaves medical professionals arguing that Santa Claus is real because he is real to children and that what we believe is true is true even when it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>One therapist in Tennessee argues that she can\u2019t answer \u201cwhat a woman\u201d is because she\u2019s not a woman. The twist is that she clearly <em>is<\/em> a woman.<\/p>\n<p>I asked Walsh how he got these people to talk to him on the record. He told me, \u201cThey didn\u2019t expect to be challenged. It is inconceivable to them that anyone would expect real answers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/BrooklynPride.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Matt Walsh points out how transgender advocates refuse to define what a woman is.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gabriella Bass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the few medical professionals in the film who doesn\u2019t come off as completely looney tunes is Dr. Miriam Grossman. She believes that some number of the population is indeed gender dysphoric and transgender, putting that number in the \u201c1 in 30,000-110,000 range\u201d \u2014 and says it\u2019s important to separate those people, who have genuine, deep discomfort with their bodies, from the recent spike in pubescent kids suddenly coming out as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/07\/low-key-reveal-loki-declared-gender-fluid-in-new-teaser\/\">genderfluid or trans.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It makes no statistical sense if your middle schooler has three or five or 10 friends who\u2019ve suddenly become gender nonbinary. The numbers don\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p>Yet <em>so much<\/em> about the current <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/08\/now-ny-progressives-want-to-teach-kids-about-gender-fluidity\/\">gender-bending push<\/a> makes no sense. If there is nothing special about the two sexes, if gender is meaningless, what are trans people transitioning <em>to?<\/em><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/MiramGrossman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/MiramGrossman.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Miriam Grossman argues the true transgender population is extremely small compared to cis gender people.\" class=\"wp-image-22630604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/MiramGrossman.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/MiramGrossman.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/MiramGrossman.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Dr. Miriam Grossman argues the true transgender population is extremely small compared to cis gender people.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Facebook<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At a Women\u2019s March, Walsh chats with some women holding a sign that reads \u201cif men could get pregnant we wouldn\u2019t even be having this conversation.\u201d When he asks what a woman actually is, they get flustered and end up arguing that men can, indeed, get pregnant \u2014 rendering their sign pointless.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most powerful scenes is Walsh\u2019s interview with Scott (Kellie) Newgent, who transitioned from female to male after being convinced that she was \u201cin the wrong body.\u201d She describes her many surgeries and how much is deeply physically wrong with her today. \u201cI will never be a man,\u201d Newgent admits. And, after the procedures, \u201cI\u2019m probably not going to live very long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet, she adds, there were few discussions about side effects though \u201cmedical transition is experimental.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\">[embedded content]<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Many us are \u201clive and let live,\u201d believing there is indeed a tiny segment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2018\/06\/08\/inside-teen-brendon-scholls-struggle-with-gender-fluid-identity\/\">population who are transgender;<\/a> we\u2019d happily let adults live however makes them happy.<\/p>\n<p>But the current moment simply won\u2019t allow for that. You will be made to care and conform. And if you don\u2019t like <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/24\/trans-woman-reunites-with-dad-who-said-shed-be-an-ugly-woman\/\">leftist gender ideology<\/a> pushed on children, you\u2019ll be deemed a bigot.<\/p>\n<p>As Walsh\u2019s film shows, this extends far beyond allowing drag queens to (for some reason) read books to children. The Biden administration removed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/lawyer-for-mother-of-hunter-bidens-child-lunden-roberts-says-he-expects-presidents-son-to-be-indicted\/\">the word \u201cmother\u201d<\/a> from health agency communications in favor of \u201cbirthing person.\u201d Women are being erased from culture. Medical professionals won\u2019t definitively answer <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/23\/questioning-trans-claims-isnt-bigotry-and-other-commentary\/\">what a woman is.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ScottNewgant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ScottNewgant.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Newgent endured numerous surgeries during his transition.\" class=\"wp-image-22630634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ScottNewgant.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ScottNewgant.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ScottNewgant.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Scott Newgent endured numerous surgeries during his transition.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">YouTube<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Walsh told me \u201cmost of what we\u2019re told from academia and media is vacuous and not grounded in science or reality.\u201d It was scary to watch him prove that right.<\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @Karol<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a woman? What should be an easy question to answer is now considered a \u201cgotcha\u201d on the left. Conservative writer Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1515006","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\/1515006","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515006\/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=1515006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}