‘People define their own genders,’ Hipkins responded when asked what a woman is

By Aubrie Spady| Fox News – Apr 3, 2023 – Fox News

My cmnt: In my effort to help and educate otherwise clueless democrats, here it is again:

From the Apple Dictionary:

woman | ˈwo͝omən | noun (plural women | ˈwimin | ) an adult human female. • [with modifier] a female person associated with a particular place, activity, or occupation: a young American woman. • [in singular] female adults in general: woman is intuitive. • a peremptory form of address to a woman: don’t be daft, woman! • a female worker or employee. • a female paid to clean someone’s house and carry out general domestic duties. • a wife, girlfriend, or lover: he wondered whether Billy had his woman with him. PHRASES be one’s own woman see own.the little woman a condescending way of referring to a man’s wife. my good woman British dated a patronizing form of address to a woman: you’re mistaken, my good woman. woman of letters a female scholar or author. woman of the streets euphemistic, dated used euphemistically to refer to a prostitute. woman of the world see world.woman to woman in a direct and frank way between two women.

female | ˈfēˌmāl | adjective of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes: a herd of female deer. • relating to or characteristic of women or female animals: a female audience | a female name. • (of a plant or flower) having a pistil but no stamens. • (of parts of machinery, fittings, etc.) manufactured hollow so that a corresponding male part can be inserted. noun a female person, animal, or plant. DERIVATIVES femaleness noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French femelle, from Latin femella, diminutive of femina ‘a woman’. The change in the ending was due to association with male, but the words maleand female are not linked etymologically.

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Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s newly elected Prime Minister, refused to define the term “woman,” arguing that “people define themselves” when pressed by a reporter.

During a press conference Sunday, Piers Morgan asked Hipkins how he, and the New Zealand government, define what a woman is. 

“To be honest, that question has come out of left field for me. The biology, sex, gender,” he said before taking a long pause. “People define themselves, people define their own genders.”

When asked about the term again, Hipkins diverted the question and said that “people identity for themselves.”

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins failed to define the term “woman.” (Kerry Marshall)

“Men and women are already equal under the law, but they have real biological differences that we must respect and celebrate…By insisting that men can become women, the left is destroying what it means to be a woman and is pushing women and girls out of sports, public life, and positions of leadership,” Blackburn told Fox News Digital after International Women’s Day. “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson showcased this absurdity for the American people and proved how far the left will go to promote their anti-women agenda.”

Despite celebrating International Women’s Day this year, the U.S. Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Heath was unable to definite the term when previously asked by Fox.

Before the 2022 midterm elections, Fox News Digital asked several Democratic candidates who were selling campaign merchandise for “women,” such as Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, to define the term, but they all refused to answer the question.

In April 2022, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., asked Biden nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during her nomination hearing if she could provide a definition for the word woman. Jackson answered, “I cannot.”

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would not define the word woman when asked during her confirmation hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite)

“Men and women are already equal under the law, but they have real biological differences that we must respect and celebrate…By insisting that men can become women, the left is destroying what it means to be a woman and is pushing women and girls out of sports, public life, and positions of leadership,” Blackburn told Fox News Digital after International Women’s Day. “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson showcased this absurdity for the American people and proved how far the left will go to promote their anti-women agenda.”

Despite celebrating International Women’s Day this year, the U.S. Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Heath was unable to definite the term when previously asked by Fox.

Before the 2022 midterm elections, Fox News Digital asked several Democratic candidates who were selling campaign merchandise for “women,” such as Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, to define the term, but they all refused to answer the question.

In July 2022, the Church of England was also asked the question and argued that “there is no official definition” for what a woman is.

“There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy,” Senior Bishop Rt Rev Robert Innes said, according to reporting from GB News. It is a scientific and biblical truth. How can you trust someone who cannot speak the truth about such basic facts?”

Fox News’ Michael Lee and Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.

Aubrie Spady is a Freelance Production Assistant for Fox News Digital.

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• CCMAG🇺🇸 Apparently all of the Leaders of the Free World Nations are following the same playbook! Promoting the Woke Green Agenda! Meanwhile, the CCP is rapidly gaining a foothold throughout the world! Reply41Share
• Tthomasv748 can we define our jobs too? i would now like to defined as the “prime minister of NZ” please forward my salary too,Reply61Share
• mdcclxxvi It seems not knowing what a “woman” is a prerequisite to hold a public office. Reply61Share
• geefostabc It’s so sad to see normally, level headed people, being so afraid of the Woke Mob.”Transgenderism” isn’t areal word folks, it’s called “Gender Dysphoria”.Don’t be afraid of saying what you know is true ! Don’t be “Hijacked”.Reply6Share
• Iinconvenientfact7 I always wanted to vacation there.Unfortunately, it has devolved to a liberal cesspool, and you couldn’t pay me to waste the airfare.Reply4Share
• DeSantis4President2024663 If I had a dollar for every gender out there I would have 2 dollars and a bunch of counterfeits! Reply71Share
• DeSantis4President2024663 Why should I accept them for who they say they are when they can’t accept themselves for what they are! Reply2Share
• FFranklin’sFollower Wow, the kiwis can’t figure out XY and XX chromosomes. I learned that in tenth grade fifty years ago. Do people figure out their own species down there too. Can a person be a dog. or a snake, or a sheep? How about their own blood type, skin color, eyes? Hmmmm. Not the sharpest knives on the table.Reply2Share
• bandwagonjumper What a shill. I’ll bet he was Mr. Two-Jabs-and-a-booster during Covid also.Reply1Share
• DeSantis4President2024663 Meanwhile I heard there was a female Olympic power lifter that suffered a horrific nut injury doing squats!