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YIKES! ACLU Lawyer Can’t Answer When Justice Alito Asks Her to “Define man or woman, boy or girl” During Questioning on Transgenders In Sports Case [VIDEO]
thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jan. 13, 2026 | Patty McMurray

Posted on 01/14/2026 6:04:06 AM PST by V_TWIN

At one point during their pro-trans boys in girls’ locker/bathrooms argument, the ACLU lawyer Kathleen Hartnett was asked by Justice Samuel Alito to define a man, boy, woman, or girl. Hartnett appeared to panic as she realized Alito had brilliantly set a trap for her. Unable to answer the question, Hartnett appears to panic, telling him “they” don’t have a definition.

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KEYWORDS: aclu; liberaltruth; scotus; sports; trans
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To: NorthMountain; Lazamataz
The line forms to the right ...

(First in line defaults to being Lazamataz ...)

21 posted on 01/14/2026 8:08:50 AM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Strident

Just heard on the radio about Maryland, I believe, voting to form High-school girls flag football as a funded sport. This one will be ripe for sissy boy raping.


22 posted on 01/14/2026 8:11:25 AM PST by Kudsman (47 is making things right again. )
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To: V_TWIN

Is just me or did it seem from her answers that she hadn’t even read the definitions of male and female as spelled out in the two laws?


23 posted on 01/14/2026 8:12:18 AM PST by redangus
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To: V_TWIN

For the sake of the nation the Supreme Court should make the ruling in this case to define boy/girl, man/woman. XX and XY chromosomes will be the determining factor. End this insanity. This is all part of the communist doctrine to divide the country every way they can. Unfortunately there are so many stupid people that continue with the charade. Ketanji Brown is the poison pill that the Supreme Court has to live with for what will seem like an eternity. Every meeting of the court including the back room meetings they get first hand view of DEI. The court should define sex in its ruling on this. Let Ketanji go into seizures as they define sex without a biology degree.


24 posted on 01/14/2026 8:12:50 AM PST by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals crazy!)
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To: V_TWIN

“Unable to answer the question, Hartnett appears to panic, telling him “they” don’t have a definition”

with no definition, does that mean an amoeba could be a boy, girl, man or woman?


25 posted on 01/14/2026 8:12:53 AM PST by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: BlueLancer

I could be her father ... possibly grandfather ...


26 posted on 01/14/2026 8:17:47 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: V_TWIN
Of course the lawyer can define the sexes. She pretends otherwise as a loyalty test.

The same as Justice Jackson as her confirmation hearing.

27 posted on 01/14/2026 8:25:15 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

They insist that “sex and gender” are separate, that “gender is a social construct”.

Even if you accept this argument, then why would somebody associating with a different gender want to CHANGE THEIR SEX?

...which, of course, is just cosmetic anyway, a living lie.

On top of this, they claim there’s “many genders” - but again, saying they want to “transition from male to female”, again, implies SEX - AND A BINARY OPTION at the same time.

This all still drives toward the fact that there’s only two sexes and that there’s no distinction between gender and sex....by their own arguments.


28 posted on 01/14/2026 8:30:01 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: V_TWIN

How does the Republican wing of the uniparty LOSE congressional majorities in 2026?

Simple really?

Transgenders CANNOT be logically defended which Judge Alito PROVED with one simple question.

ANY Democrat running for ANY office should be hectored into going on the record about what defines a woman and go on the record if perverts should be allowed on women’s teams and in women’s dressing rooms.

This was NOT done in 2024.

If it had the hand wringing pansies running for the house as Republicans would have ridden Trump’s coattails to more than measly five seat majority.


29 posted on 01/14/2026 8:34:32 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: jagusafr
"Sydney - just dayummm...."

What? Are you saying Dylan isn't hot? That he (I mean "they") isn't/aren't the very paragon of feminine beauty and allure?! LOL

30 posted on 01/14/2026 8:34:42 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: V_TWIN
That shtick may fly in Congress, but not at the Supreme Court.

-PJ

31 posted on 01/14/2026 8:35:26 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: lee martell

“How unfortunate that, as far as I know, Tulsi Gabbard does not have a law degree. “


A law degree has never been a requirement to be a justice of the US supreme court. There has been less of them with a law degree than without.
And given that not-a-biologist Ketanji is qualified enough to be one, that sets the precedent that any dogwatcher can too.


32 posted on 01/14/2026 9:06:06 AM PST by miniTAX
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To: All

Sorry. It is Prince Wiiliam County. Northern Virginia, not Maryland.


33 posted on 01/14/2026 9:34:05 AM PST by Kudsman (47 is making things right again. )
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To: V_TWIN

“Can’t” or “won’t”? The first is stupidity, the second is prevarication.


34 posted on 01/14/2026 9:38:19 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: Sacajaweau
The fact that she said explicitly that she's not a biologist...tells us...that it's a question of biology (and not culture) and that can only be “a matter of chromosomes”....and that means XX or XY....and that means female or male....There is no XYZ.

Whether she's a biologist is totally immaterial. Her position requires her to make decisions on questions regarding all types of fields. Would she say that she's not a doctor or a teacher or a plumber or a policeman and therefore not able to rule on topics regarding those fields?

35 posted on 01/14/2026 9:50:48 AM PST by Family Guy (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
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To: OrangeHoof

The late great William Buckley’s definition was even better: the Anti-Christian Lunacy Union.


36 posted on 01/14/2026 3:44:43 PM PST by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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