Not just being put to Bureaucrats in the US - it's being done here & they are equally reluctant to answer the question.
Courier Mail today - paywalled. Page 3.
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Quote:What is a woman? Umm?
Debate leaves ‘scared’ public servants speechless
CLARISSA BYE
“SCARED” public servants are too afraid to answer the simple question of what a woman is as a result of the
trans debate, according to a senator – after awkward scenes emerged of the nation’s top health bureaucrat
floundering over the question during a senate hearing.
Liberal Senator Alex Antic asked Health Department boss Dr Brendan Murphy during budget estimates this
week to “please provide me with a definition of what a woman is”.
Dr Murphy answered, after a long silence from the other senators in the hearing, that included an awkward
cough: “I think there are a variety of definitions … perhaps to give a more fulsome answer we should take that
on notice.
“It’s a very contested space at the moment … there are definitions in terms of (how) people identify
themselves, we are happy to provide our working definition.”
The Department of Foreign Affairs was also unable to provide an answer when asked on Thursday, with one
senior public servant taking the question on notice.
Mr Antic told The Courier- Mail: “It is beyond alarming that I have not been able to get a simple answer from
the federal bureaucracy.
“What is more alarming is the obvious inference that the reluctance to provide a simple answer shows how
deeply radical gender theory has infiltrated the bureaucracy.”
Liberal Senator Claire Chandler, who has introduced a Bill in federal parliament to “save women’s sport”, said
many public servants might feel unable to speak truthfully because of fear of being attacked.
“There’s only one reason bureaucrats and Labor- Green politicians pretend they don’t know what a woman is –
so they can justify males selfidentifying into women’s sports, change-rooms, prisons and health services,”
Senator Chandler said.
The issue has risen to prominence around the world, amid a backlash against biological males identifying as
women competing in women’s sports.
In the US, Biden Administration Supreme Court judge nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson was slammed for
ducking the question by replying “I’m not a biologist” when asked.
Australian boss of the Workplace Gender Equality Agency was also asked the question last week and was unable
to provide a straightforward answer.
In Britain, the Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer came under fire from author JK Rowling over his answer
to the question about the definition of a woman, when he said the law stated that trans women were women
and called for changes to laws.