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Refusing to legally define the word ‘woman’ is the biggest cop-out ever
New York Post ^ | August 29, 2023 | Kirsten Fleming

Posted on 08/29/2023 3:09:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

In the bizarre case of sorority sisters from the University of Wyoming suing to block a trans woman, Artemis Langford, from joining Kappa Kappa Gamma, the legal authority punted on telling a universal truth. Judge Alan Johnson tossed the suit, saying the sorority doesn’t explicitly define a woman, so he won’t step into the morass.

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“With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define a ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote.

After three years of being lectured by the “trust the science” crowd, we’re suddenly at a loss to crystalize an irrefutable biological fact. Suddenly, no consensus can be found.

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1 posted on 08/29/2023 3:09:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
One of these is not like the other one….


2 posted on 08/29/2023 3:12:10 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: nickcarraway

So then, if I post a sign on the door of my business saying: “No Women Allowed”, legally I am fine, as long as I don’t try to define “women”. Right?


3 posted on 08/29/2023 3:12:48 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

It’s not a cop out, there’s a reason.


4 posted on 08/29/2023 3:18:09 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Boogieman

I would bet that there are plenty on this forum who very easily could come up with the proper definition as well as specification for a woman as designed by nature.


5 posted on 08/29/2023 3:19:24 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: Boogieman

So, I can take my Australian Shepherd anywhere that posts a “no dogs allowed”sign since they don’t define what a dog is.


6 posted on 08/29/2023 3:19:37 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: nickcarraway

That’s because the decrepit and satanic Women’s Movement has brought women to the place they don’t know who the hell they are. And it sure shows.


7 posted on 08/29/2023 3:20:21 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: nickcarraway

In the day hizzoner would simply take judicial notice of the definition of woman. They are effing cowards.


8 posted on 08/29/2023 3:21:20 PM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Boogieman

Woman: someone who is adept at making sandwiches and knows how to make a long story short…according to the woman.


9 posted on 08/29/2023 3:22:41 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: nickcarraway

“Justice” Ketanji Jackson should have been asked, “As a mother, can you define “woman”?


10 posted on 08/29/2023 3:24:56 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s not a cop out it’s plain stupidity and shows how far education has fallen in the last 30 years or so.

Anyone who can’t define a woman is a mentally retarded asswipe who should be in an insane asylum along with every man who thinks he’s a woman and vice versa.

It’s a F’n disease called liberalism. The cure is annihilation or a lifetime of being institutionalized.

The first is far more cost effective.


11 posted on 08/29/2023 3:27:39 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: Saintgermain

They put us in a position in which we are not supposed to talk about physical characteristics, or chromosomes, or hormones, or any other such indicators, to define male and female.

Even a Supreme Court Justice cannot define what a woman is.

If we can’t talk about penis and vagina, can’t talk about chromosomes, can’t talk about hormones associated with each biological sex, and can’t even say that there is such a concept as biological sex, how can the liberals who dictate the terms of the discussion define anything?


12 posted on 08/29/2023 3:28:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Right Brother

Personally I’m sick of seeing dogs in every F’n restaurant or brewery I go to. A REAL service dog I understand but enough is enough.

I love dogs but mine stays home when I go out to eat.


13 posted on 08/29/2023 3:30:15 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: nickcarraway
“With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the court will not define a ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote.

In the original version, the court would not rule on whether Kris Kringle was actually Santy Claus. Life imitates art.

14 posted on 08/29/2023 3:32:28 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: nickcarraway

Misogyny.


15 posted on 08/29/2023 3:33:15 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: nickcarraway
Refusing to legally define the word ‘woman’ is the biggest cop-out ever

In this particular case, I disagree.

The judge simply dismissed the case because he said it isn't up to a Federal court to render any decision on the membership rules for a private organization like a sorority. He basically said a "woman" is whatever the hell the leaders of this sorority say it is. Good for the judge.

Cases like this actually do great harm to womens' credibility in the long run ... because any mature adult should be able to deal with this nonsense without resorting to a lawsuit. If you don't like the people your sorority admits, then get out and join another one instead. Good grief -- are people so 'effing fragile that they can't cope with the kind of crap a bunch of young children in a treehouse club could fix themselves?

16 posted on 08/29/2023 3:41:36 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: maddog55

I agree, but that wasn’t my point. I was being analogous.


17 posted on 08/29/2023 3:42:17 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: DoodleBob

I am woman hear me roar, with a package too big to ignore.


18 posted on 08/29/2023 3:50:06 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: nickcarraway

The case depends on the definition of a woman.

If the judge wants to pretend he does not know what a woman is, he should recuse himself.


19 posted on 08/29/2023 3:55:40 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: Old Yeller
I am woman hear me roar, with a package too big to ignore.

LOL! Well played.
20 posted on 08/29/2023 3:57:26 PM PDT by rockvillem
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