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A Debate Question for Kamala Harris

"What is a woman?

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Gerald Posner
Sep 11, 2024
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Given Harris's commanding lead with women voters, I explain why so much rides on her answer in my piece just published in the NY Post (reprinted below in full) https://nypost.com/2024/09/10/opinion/whats-riding-on-kamala-harris-answer-to-a-simple-question-what-is-a-woman/

What is a woman?

It’s a question Kamala Harris will ghost unless asked at Tuesday’s presidential debate.

And if queried, will she dodge it as Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson did in her 2022 Senate confirmation hearing, saying, “I’m not a biologist”?

There’s much more at stake than semantics.

Harris has a commanding lead over Donald Trump among female voters everywhere, including the critical swing states. Her answer would indicate if her administration would gut Title IX protections for women’s sports and green-light gender ideologues who want children and adolescents to have easier access to medical interventions while erecting legal barriers between parents and children.

Harris, as with many major issues, has…

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