If you have suspected that the emperor has no clothes, I've got good news and bad news.

The good news, you're not crazy.

Bad news, he's really naked.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

This is Breakpoint.

Matt Walsh's new documentary, What Is a Woman, is built on a very simple premise.

Ask the academics, the pediatricians, the politicians who promote

transgender ideology to define their terms. The result is a documentary that's engaging,

depressing, and infuriating all at the same time. In the end, Walsh demonstrates just how bankrupt

transgender ideology is, how damaging it is, and how even its most

vocal supporters cannot prove otherwise.

Now, that should reassure the millions of people who've had this sense that even though

companies like Google, Starbucks, and Pizza Hut, and so many politicians and others talk as

if this whole issue is settled, it's not. In fact, according to a recent

poll commissioned by Summit Ministries, there's still a significant majority of Americans who oppose

gender-altering surgery for minors as well as classroom indoctrination. Even so, as much as the

emperor's being paraded in front of our faces all the time, it's easy to get twisted up.

You might be tempted to wonder, does everyone really buy this? Or even maybe it's me that's missing

something. Look, the real contribution of Matt Walsh's documentary is to remind us that there really

are no clothes on this particular emperor. When Walsh asked an exasperated professor of gender studies at the University of Tennessee to define a woman,

the reply is a person who identifies as a woman, to which Walsh responds, but what are they identifying as?

The resulting silence is painful enough, as both viewers, and presumably even the professor,

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