HuffPost Asks GOP Lawmakers ‘What Is a Woman?’
The Huffington Post asked Republican lawmakers the same question they say Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson failed to answer. On Wednesday, the outlet released a report of responses Republican lawmakers gave…
The Huffington Post asked Republican lawmakers the same question they say Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson failed to answer.
On Wednesday, the outlet released a report of responses Republican lawmakers gave to the question “what is a woman?”
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told the Huffington Post, “I don’t have anything for you on that.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said, “I’m not going to indulge you.”
The outlet reported that Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) “dodged the question three times in a row, citing her policy of not talking to reporters in Senate hallways ― even though it was Blackburn who made this an issue with Jackson in the first place.”
A spokesperson for Blackburn told the Post in a follow-up email that a woman is “Two X chromosomes.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) responded the same way, saying, “A woman is born with two X-chromosomes.”
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) explained he has “more of a traditional view of what a woman is.”
When asked what that is, he replied, “My wife.”
According to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a woman is someone who is “biologically a woman.”