In honor of Women’s History Month, the Alliance Defending Freedom and XX-XY Athletics created an advertisement mocking the American Civil Liberties Union for not knowing what it clearly knows: what a woman is.
Jennifer Sey, Founder and CEO of XX-XY Athletics and an advocate for women-only sports, posted the ad, “We Knew What a Woman Was,” along with the comment:
Up until about 5 minutes ago, we all knew what a woman was. That’s why there is a Women’s History Month.
Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal aid firm working on behalf of life, religious freedom and free speech, also posted the ad, saying:
We knew then. We know now. We can’t go backwards.
Join us and @xx_xyathletics this Women’s History Month as we continue to advocate for fairness and equal opportunities for the next generation of women and girls.
The ad begins with audio of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alito asking the question:
For equal protection purposes, what does it mean to be a boy or a girl, or a man or a woman?
Justice Alito made the query earlier this year, during oral arguments in two cases concerning Idaho and West Virginia laws prohibiting male athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports, Little v. Hecox and State of West Virginia v. BPJ.
You would think attorneys fighting these laws would be able to define fundamental human terms.
But, as the advertisement makes clear, the ACLU team could not do this. Attorney Kathleen Hartnett replied to Alito, saying:
We do not have a definition for the Court.
It’s a startling admission from an attorney fighting cases which hinge on the definition of sex – what it means to be male or female.
The advertisement goes on to show images of historic firsts for women, saying:
We knew what a woman was when the first one was elected to congress.
We knew what a woman was when women gained the right to vote. …
We know what a woman was when the first one became Vice President.
Then comes the punch line:
So why doesn’t the ACLU legal team know what a woman is now?
A second question from Alito finishes off the indictment against the ACLU:
Well, … how can a court determine whether there’s discrimination on the basis of sex without knowing what sex means for equal protection purposes?
The ACLU used to know what women are. The organization even touts its work on behalf of women since its founding in 1920:
In the 1930s, the ACLU fought for the right of Connecticut schoolteachers on maternity leave to be reinstated in their jobs following the birth of their babies.
Throughout the 1940s, the ACLU advocated equal pay for equal work. … During this decade, the ACLU also challenged a Massachusetts law that prohibited married women from teaching in public schools.
In the 1960s, the ACLU intensified its activism on women’s issues, attacking the exclusion of women from juries and petitioning Congress to enact and enforce laws barring discrimination against women.
Although it has always, quite wrongly, supported the evil of abortion as “women’s healthcare – at least the organization was clear about the differences between men and women.
It even knew that women were the ones who could get pregnant and give birth!
But that is no longer the case, thanks to gender ideology that ironically sprang from radical feminism.
For years now, the ACLU has believed and promoted a false ideology that says men can somehow magically turn into women by simply declaring it so.
The organization works to undermine girls and women’s sports, along with their privacy and safety.
Kudos to organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom and XX-XY Athletics for battling for truth and reminding us that we’ve always known what women are.
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