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   BTR1701 to moviePig   
   Re: "We Do Not Have a Definition for the   
   16 Jan 26 03:29:39   
   
   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 15, 2026 at 3:33:58 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
      
   > On 1/15/2026 6:22 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>  On Jan 15, 2026 at 2:06:48 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  On 1/14/2026 10:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>    During oral argument at the Supreme Court this week, in a case where   
   the   
   >>>>  Court   
   >>>>    will decide the fate of state laws barring males from competing in   
   women's   
   >>>>    sports, Justice Alito asked a perfectly reasonable and logical   
   question of   
   >>>>  the   
   >>>>    attorney representing the transformers:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    ALITO: For purposes of Equal Protection, for the 14th Amendment   
   analysis,   
   >>>>  what   
   >>>>    does it mean to be a boy or a girl?"   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    After a lot of stammering and hedging, the attorney replied, "We do not   
   >>>>  have a   
   >>>>    definition for the Court."   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    So basically, Alito asked "What is a woman?" and (much like Ketanji   
   >>>> Jackson   
   >>>>  in   
   >>>>    her confirmation hearing) a Harvard Law School-educated attorney   
   standing   
   >>>>    before the Supreme Court of the United States simply can't tell you   
   what a   
   >>>>    woman is. The official position of the transformer community apparently   
   >>>> is,   
   >>>>    "No one really knows what a woman is. It's a mystery for the ages."   
   >>>>   
   >>>>    Thankfully, it seems the Supreme Court is preparing to end this   
   >>>> nonsense and   
   >>>>    uphold the state laws trying to eradicate this lunacy.   
   >>>   
   >>>  That community is right: no one knows what a woman "is".   
   >>   
   >>  Yes, we do. We've known since mankind pulled himself upright and started   
   >>  walking on two legs. Hell, it was known even before that. No other species   
   >> in   
   >>  the entire biosphere seems to suffer such confusion. All other sexually   
   >>  dimorphic creatures on earth can tell which among them are male and which   
   >> are   
   >>  female. Only Homo sapiens seem confused and only then just in the last   
   >> decade   
   >>  or so.   
   >   
   > So you can say what a woman is?  Please do.   
      
   An adult female member of the species Homo sapiens sapiens, characterized by   
   double X chromosomes and a physiology purposed toward bearing young.   
      
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