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What Is a Woman?
2022 · Film · documentary · 95 min
Directed by Justin Folk
Matt Walsh's controversial doc challenges radical gender ideology through provocative interviews and humor.
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If you post "What are your favorite snacks at the movie theater?" you can get a 3 day ban from /ck/ which is too short to appeal. I posted a thread on the Television and Movie board asking what people thought of Matt Walsh's movie What is a Woman and got a 3 day ban which was too short to appeal for posting off topic
> ...in what context?
"What is a woman?" Should be a fair question if "trans women are women" is taken to be true.
> For example, "we're building a bridge"
This ("What is a woman?") is a famous question, so I thought the context was well known.
Sen. Blackburn asked it of a Supreme Court nominee, and there is a documentary of the same name and topic.
> Like that's a question which needs an answer, because the positions are mutually contradictory.
The positions yes, but to quote myself:
"there are two options taken as package deals - red or blue"
> What contradictory position is being not answered by "what is a woman?"
have you followed the context of why this is brought up?:
> MAGA react to questions like this as Dems react to questions like "what is a woman?".
> EDIT: to be clear, they react as if the inconvenient question is in bad faith.
In other words, they support whatever their candidate does, whether their positions actually agree with it or not.
It's most certainly a reference to Matt Walsh's documentary
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/in-what-is-a-woman-matt-walsh-asks-a-question/
> irreversable surgeries on vulnerable teens
In the latest scare about this in Nashville, TN it came out that they were doing about 5 breast reductions a year on trans men who were 16-17 years old. This is a surgery that is commonly performed on cisgender boys who have gynecomastia because, surprise, boys feel awkward about having large breasts. They were only allowed to do this after counseling between them and their parents. Trans men are given these surgeries as minors from time to time because many have a habit of binding their breasts so tightly that they damage their bodies, cracking ribs etc....
Genital surgeries are not performed.
https://apnews.com/article/health-business-tennessee-nashville-vanderbilt-university-6deb93f7dea92f1b2082c39f72b59766
> On average, VUMC has provided five gender affirming surgeries to minors every year since its transgender clinic opened in 2018. All were over the age of 16 and had parental consent, and none received genital procedures.
In Florida they are attempting to ban SOCIAL transition which is just someone male being able to wear girls' clothes or someone female being able to wear boys' clothes.
https://www.them.us/story/florida-trans-youth-transition-care-ban-ron-desantis
In Tennessee they are attempting to classify "female and male impersonators" alongside strippers as being unfit to be seen in public. The law is vague enough that it would give police leeway to persecute anyone who is gender non-conforming including gay and lesbian people. Anti-crossdressing laws were the main way that gay and lesbian people were harassed up through the 70's FYI and were directly related to the Stonewall uprising.
https://www.advocate.com/law/2022/11/09/bills-introduced-tenn-ban-drag-shows-gender-affirming-care
Even mentioning the existence of transgender adults around children is being legislated against and called "grooming" -- you can't make someone trans any more than you can make them gay so the idea is ridiculous.
When Matt Walsh, a very notable conservative catholic anti transgender activist who works under Ben Shapiro, appeared on Joe Rogan last week he was fact checked after he claimed MILLIONS of kids are being put on puberty blockers. The actual figure, as pointed out on the show, is under 5000 in the past five years. Not even a thousand a year. He recently released an anti transgender film called "What is a Woman?" which leads one to believe that his wildly inaccurate figure was an attempt to enrage Joe Rogan's audience with a lie rather than inform them with the truth. That, or he somehow spent thousands of hours pouring over the topic and still managed to get a basic statistic wrong by two orders of magnitude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2lG7Y_8bVU
Matt Walsh has also said that his goal is for transition to be banned for everyone including adults: https://archive.ph/mi8jc
This all adds up to one obvious conclusion, which is that the talking point you just shared is a scare tactic meant to turn people against supporting the tiny minority of trans people in this country and instead treat them as a danger to themselves and others. It's cruel and misinformed and it won't work in the long run because it's based on irrational hatred, lies and half truths rather than genuine concern about people's wellbeing.
https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-vietnam-war
https://www.metacritic.com/movie/what-is-a-woman