Biden admin agencies refuse to answer, ‘What is a woman?’

A handful of Biden administration federal businesses have been unable to outline the that means of the phrase “lady” – in some instances, even in relation to their very own makes use of of phrases akin to “girls’s well being”  –  when requested by Fox Information Digital.

The Biden administration’s Division of Justice (DOJ), Division of Training, Division of Housing and City Growth (HUD) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons have been all contacted by Fox Information Digital requesting a definition of “lady.” Not one of the businesses offered their definition or standards for a person to be categorized as a “lady,” regardless of every boasting complete initiatives geared toward serving to girls and DOJ declined to remark.

Fox Information Digital additionally reached out to the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) to request the group’s definition of “lady” in relation to phrases akin to “girls’s rights” and “girls’s healthcare.” NIH describes itself as “the steward of medical and behavioral analysis for the Nation,” and its goal as “[seeking] elementary data concerning the nature and habits of residing methods.”

KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, BIDEN’S SUPREME COURT PICK, REFUSES TO DEFINE THE WORD ‘WOMAN’

When requested for the definition, the NIH directed Fox Information Digital to its web site part on “intercourse and gender.” 

“‘Intercourse’ refers to organic variations between females and males, together with chromosomes, intercourse organs, and endogenous hormonal profiles,” the NIH claims on their web site. “‘Gender’ refers to socially constructed and enacted roles and behaviors which happen in a historic and cultural context and fluctuate throughout societies and over time. All people act in lots of ways in which fulfill the gender expectations of their society. With steady interplay between intercourse and gender, well being is decided by each biology and the expression of gender.”

Nonetheless, the literature offered by the NIH didn’t tackle the that means of “lady” or “girls” in relation to intercourse and gender. Regardless of utilizing the phrase regularly of their writing, no clarification is given on whether or not the phrase “girls” – as utilized by the NIH – is descriptive of intercourse or gender.

Requested for clarification, the NIH refused to remark additional.

“Glad the web page was considerably helpful,” the NIH replied, however continued, “We don’t have anything so as to add.”

Fox Information Digital additionally reached out on to the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) for touch upon the difficulty. After two days and a number of replies stating that the inquiry can be addressed, the HHS failed to supply a solution.

The HHS’ Workplace of Inhabitants Affairs launched a doc Thursday titled “Gender Affirming Care and Younger Individuals.” The identical day, the Substance Abuse and Psychological Well being Providers Administration’s Nationwide Youngster Traumatic Stress Community – one other subset of the HHS – launched a parallel doc titled, “Gender-Affirming Care Is Trauma-Knowledgeable Care.”

The HHS paperwork describe what it calls applicable therapies for transgender adolescents, together with: “‘Prime’ surgical procedure – to create male-typical chest form or improve breasts;” and “‘Backside’ surgical procedure – surgical procedure on genitals or reproductive organs, facial feminization or different procedures.”

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 30:  Secretary of Well being and Human Providers Xavier Becerra solutions questions at a Senate Well being, Training, Labor, and Pensions Committee listening to to debate reopening colleges throughout Covid-19 at Capitol Hill on September 30, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photograph by Greg Nash- Pool/Getty Photographs)
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The RAND Company – a assume tank nearly solely funded by the U.S. authorities for the needs of session on army coverage – additionally said that they didn’t have a definition for the phrase “lady,” regardless of in depth analysis into girls’s rights, well being and health.

“You’re right in that RAND has completed quite a lot of research associated to gender and girls particularly, however our experiences are largely centered on the impacts to girls of assorted insurance policies or circumstances,” a RAND spokesperson informed Fox Information Digital. “I don’t consider your query is one which we’ve got ever explicitly researched, thus I don’t have anybody who can converse to it. Sorry we are able to’t be extra assist.”

Requested how RAND is ready to measure or analysis the impacts to girls of assorted insurance policies with out a definition of the phrase, RAND didn’t reply.

RAND receives roughly $68.4 million in funds from the HHS, and greater than 70% of their funds are from U.S. authorities businesses.

Kara Dansky, U.S. president of Ladies’s Declaration Worldwide, informed Fox Information Digital on a press name hosted by Unbiased Ladies’s Voice & Unbiased Ladies’s Legislation Heart Thursday that “President Biden started to obliterate intercourse as a definite class instantly upon taking workplace when he signed Govt Order 13988 on stopping and combating discrimination on the idea of so-called gender identification and sexual orientation.”

ATLANTA, GA – MARCH 17:  Members of Younger Ladies For America protest transgender swimmer Lia Thomas on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March seventeenth, 2022 on the McAuley Aquatic Heart in Atlanta Georgia.
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She stated that Biden administration businesses together with DOJ, HHS, HUD and others “have all introduced that girls now not exist as a coherent class as a matter of federal administrative regulation.”

On Thursday, Unbiased Ladies’s Voice, Unbiased Ladies’s Legislation Heart, Ladies’s Liberation Entrance and different advocates launched a “Ladies’s Invoice of Rights” to “reserve organic intercourse as a definite authorized class.”

A press launch accompanying the announcement said that dictionaries generally outline “lady” as an “grownup feminine human being.” The advocacy teams are involved by “activists” who’re distorting and disputing the “organic foundation of womanhood.”

The difficulty has intensified as controversial feminine transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, was allowed to compete within the NCAA girls’s swimming championship final month. She beat out organic females in a lot of her races, which many say could be attributed to her bigger measurement and stature as a organic male. 

In the course of the Senate hearings for Supreme Court docket nominee Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson final week, the possible justice was requested by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., to outline the time period “lady.” After a brief back-and-forth, Jackson informed the senator that she couldn’t present a definition as a result of she is “not a biologist.” 

“Are you able to present a definition for the phrase ‘lady?’” the senator requested.

“Can I present a definition? No,” Jackson responded. “I am unable to.”

“You may’t?” Blackburn requested.

“Not on this context, I am not a biologist,” the decide replied.

Jackson’s incapability to outline the phrase triggered main backlash from conservatives, who questioned how she would deal with subjects explicitly associated to gender variations if confirmed as a Supreme Court docket justice.

Fox Information’ Kelly Laco contributed to this report.