Republicans' crusade against the transgender community was on full display during the Senate Judiciary Committee's confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, whom President Joe Biden nominated to the United States Supreme Court in the wake of Justice Stephen Breyer's imminent retirement.
One particularly viral moment came during far-right Senator Marsha Blackburn's questioning of Jackson, when Blackburn demanded Judge Jackson define the word "woman," hoping to hear the accomplished judge parrot the flawed biological essentialism used to define the word in GOP circles.
Watch below.
BLACKBURN: Can you provide a definition for the word 'woman'?
JACKSON: I can't. I'm not a biologist. pic.twitter.com/hQ7Q67O0Vw
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 23, 2022
Jackson responded:
"Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes. If there is a dispute about a definition, people make arguments and I look at the law and decide."
Jackson was chastised by the right, who erroneously claimed she doesn't know what a woman is, and her answer was shared to support their lies that women are supposedly being erased by the transgender community.
At a recent even, far-right Congresswoman and prominent conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia alluded to Jackson's answer to the bizarre question, then promoted her own antiquated views of how women should be perceived.
Watch below.
Marge Greene: “I’m going to tell you right now what is a woman .. We came from Adam’s rib .. We are the weaker sex, but we are our husband’s wife.” pic.twitter.com/R825bZPtiI
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 4, 2022
Greene was met with applause after telling supporters:
"I'm gonna tell you right now what is a woman. This is an easy answer. We are a creation of God. We came from Adam's rib. God created us with his hand. We may be the weaker sex, we are the weaker sex, but we are our partner, our husband's wife."
Claims that a celestial being created women from the extracted rib of the first man to ever exist aside, Greene's antiquated assertion that women are the "weaker sex" was met with widespread derision.
People soon began citing examples of women who defy the idea that their sex is inherently weaker.
Marge, I’m not weak, boo. https://t.co/7qNQs5Va0P pic.twitter.com/uYKqK2ROAf
— Julie B(rooklyn) Multi Racial Resister🇺🇸🇯🇲😷 (@JMeanypants) April 5, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene says, “We (women) are the weaker sex.” — This is Arapaho warrior woman Pretty Nose, hero of the Battle of Little Bighorn, June 25th 1876. She fought right along side the men — becoming the first female War Chief of the Arapaho Nation. pic.twitter.com/pmtASuhwXd
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) April 4, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene says, “We (women) are the weaker sex.” — I figure she has no idea who Harriet Tumban is. pic.twitter.com/a2uXjaRNCp
— Dr. Chavez (@eddieca305) April 5, 2022
#MariaCurie died in 1934
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”@NobelPrize https://t.co/V0ipQToE6c https://t.co/2zeXIs2RlJ https://t.co/4mUmwxDDZX pic.twitter.com/RC8Fu6OmbT
— 3PP Movies (@3PennyMovies) April 4, 2022
If I’m “the weaker sex,” @RepMTG, explain how I walked hours after a c-section, raised my child alone, changed careers, went back 2 school, earned my MS, owned a business for a decade all w/o a man. I love men. But I do just fine on my own & so will my daughter if she chooses.
— AER, MS, Ed. (@PuckLives403) April 5, 2022
Greene: We are the weaker sex
Me: talk about yourself, I'm strong af 💪
*Can she pls stop with this mysogyny and her trans hate ffs https://t.co/MGzXjaRuJ8
— Kejri (@KejriWasHere) April 5, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene says, “We (women) are the weaker sex.”
These women are strong AF. Ain't no weaker sex here. pic.twitter.com/AMYIEGsW8i
— I stand with Ukraine🇺🇦 (@Dadilicious2) April 5, 2022
Social media users fiercely rejected her comments.
#MTG setting women back a few hundred years… is this really what the right thinks, women are the “weaker sex”, “you’re husbands partner”?
pic.twitter.com/Os7Nfo10oo
— Brent Harris 🎙 (@BrentWBAL) April 5, 2022
Jackson's confirmation will soon head to the Senate floor, and is expected to pass with bipartisan support.
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