[NOW MIA...] How Many Judges Does It Take To Define 'Woman?' | Opinion

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-judges-does-it-take-define-woman-
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Today's most pressing women's rights issue is not abortion. It's not equal
pay, domestic violence, or child care. It's whether society is willing to
recognize "women" at all. Without this basic understanding, there can be
no "women's" interest demanding or deserving of protection.

That's why Independent Women's Law Center is representing six Kappa Kappa
Gamma sisters at the University of Wyoming in the 10th Circuit Court of
Appeals. The lawsuit alleges that Kappa's national leadership ran
roughshod over the sorority's bylaws to provide membership to a biological
male: a 260-pound, 21-year-old individual with a 1.9 GPA (well below the
sorority's 2.7 cutoff) who discussed his "desire to be near cadavers and
to touch dead bodies" during the recruitment process. The sisters say they
were forced to vote publicly and informed that a "no" vote would be a sign
of bigotry and a basis for expulsion. Since joining, the male member has
taken unwanted pictures of the women, asked them to describe their
vaginas, and watched the girls undress.

Time and again we see injustices like what happened to these sorority
sisters egged on by elitists who congratulate themselves for such devout
commitment to diversity and inclusion, having already reaped the benefits
of single-sex living years ago. But despite their professed commitment to
inclusion, by pretending that "women" includes biological males, they in
fact deprive women the say they are owed. That sounds pretty exclusionary
to me.

Sadly, the district court ruled in favor of Kappa leadership. In the
process, it stripped the organization's bylaws of any meaning. "Woman,"
the court said, is "undefined," and cannot be constrained by the
"circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge." "Woman" might mean anyone who
claims to be a woman, at least according to a federal court.

Of course, this is nonsensical from a basic definitional perspective.
Identifying oneself as a "woman" still requires an underlying definition
of "woman." Self-identification can never provide a definition since it
has no boundaries on its own. Even an inanimate object like my iPhone can
"identify" as a woman, but it's still an iPhone.

Dissolving "woman" into an unknowable void is more than senseless, it's
extraordinarily consequential.

For one, it wrecks our ability to use language. We rely on contracts for
countless purposes. If I order a shirt but receive pants, I can point to
language in the contract to fix the issue. And if the supplier won't fix
it, I can take my issue to court. Interpreting contracts擁ncluding, for
example, bylaws擁s a quintessential duty of judging. Where activists
dismantle language and threaten social consequences for those who apply
ordinary meaning, we lose more than common sense. We lose the ability to
function as a society.

And if that were not important enough, there's more: the truth.

Women exist, as biologically distinct from men. And single-sex spaces are
beneficial to women. That includes domestic abuse shelters, given that, on
average, more than three women are killed by their husbands or boyfriends
per day. It also includes sex-specific sports. After all, thousands of
high-school boys can outpace star female Olympians and biological males
can severely injure women on the field, as we learn again and again. And
it also includes single-sex social and scholastic organizations. As Kappa
itself has argued in court, "the benefits of having participated in a
single-sex environment persist even after the woman has graduated or
otherwise left the environment."

Women's organizations are worth preserving.

The fight won't be easy. Kappa alumnae have already been kicked out for
the mere act of speaking the truth. Sorority women have experienced a
smear campaign, and have been accused of inventing sexual misconduct and
even instigating murder.

But these women are not deterred. Women have fought for suffrage, property
rights, education, and protection from violence. We are more than willing
to fight for our existence and for the truth.


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