Walsh: The word "woman," just like the word "man,"
has a definition.
The refusal to define the word "woman" is part of this.
Now, they say that nobody can define it.
It's an abstract, philosophical concept.
It doesn't mean anything, really, they say.
And although it doesn't mean anything,
they still want you to take a man seriously
when he says he identifies as a woman,
despite the fact that he's identifying as something that,
according to them, means nothing.
But none of this makes sense or is true.
The word "woman," just like the word "man,"
has a definition.
A woman, by definition, is an adult human female.
A man is an adult human male.
Those are the only two options available
for the human species.
That's it.
There is no third sex.
It doesn't exist.
All humans who have ever lived
have been either male or female.
What do we call this?
We call this a binary system.
It's the only system available to us.
It's the reason why if you go on Amazon
and you order a shirt with the non-binary pride flag,
it will come in either men's or women's sizes
[audience laughter]
because there's no other third option.
Now, what is a female?
Well, a female is somebody with XX chromosomes,
a female reproductive system, female gametes or eggs,
and the ability, in principle,
to ovulate and bear offspring.
Now, there are females who suffer from illnesses,
mutations, injuries, deformities,
or who simply are post-menopausal,
which prevent them from performing
some of these natural female functions.
That does not make them any less female,
and it also does nothing at all to invalidate the binary.
It is, instead, what we call an exception
that proves the rule.
Here's why.
When a female cannot bear children,
we know that something is wrong physically,
and we know this because females are supposed
to be able to bear children.
When a man cannot bear children,
we know that it is not a sign of anything having gone wrong
because men are not supposed to be able to bear children
and never, ever have.
So if, as a woman, you go to the doctor and tell him
that you're unable to conceive children in your womb,
he's not going to say to you, "Oh, well,
maybe that means that you're non-binary.
Maybe that's just who you are.
That's just how it is."
You'd probably be pretty upset if he said that.
No, he's going to run some tests,
and he's going to figure out
what's wrong in your body.
Maybe it can be fixed, maybe it can't,
but it's just a fact that something is wrong,
and he can almost certainly find out what it is.
If, as a man, you go to the doctor and tell him
that you're unable to conceive children in your womb,
he'll run some tests to see what's wrong with your mind.
[audience laughter]
Or at least that's how he would have responded
up until recently.
Now, because society has lost its mind,
he might give the man hormone pills
to help him transition into a woman,
but you'll note that even after transition,
still the man will not be able to ovulate
or conceive children or perform any other
exclusively female function because he's not a female
and will never be one.
He's a man.
That means he's a male with XY chromosomes,
male anatomy, male gametes...
But there's a lot more to being a male than just that.
Indeed, the physical differences between men and women
are not confined to the reproductive system.
They can be found in every bodily system
in every part of the body.
A man is male down to his bones, down to his cells,
down to his DNA.
Even after he dies, his bones will attest
to the biological reality.
They can dig him up 100 years from now and find his bones,
and find out that he was male.
The bones will not declare his pronouns
or affirm his self-perception.
There will be no self.
The self is gone, but the man remains.