During the Senate confirmation hearings of the latest Supreme Court Justice,

Kataji Brown Jackson was asked to define the term woman.

Her answer reflected the confusion in the culture generally about gender.

How would you define what a woman is?

On what basis would you make that determination?

How should we think about the number of minor children undergoing gender-affirming treatments and particularly those who are det transitioning.

I'll answer these questions and more today with our guest Katie McCoy and her new book entitled

To Be a Woman. I'm your host Scott Ray and this is Think

Biblically from Talbot School of Theology here by the

university. Katie, welcome, so good to have you with us and so appreciate you the

depth and the insight of your book to be a woman.

Hey Scott, thank you so much for having me.

Tell us a little bit about why you are so interested in this area of gender studies, why you wanted to write about it, why you're so passionate about it?

I started on this topic when I was teaching in feminist theory,

feminist ideas, and how it's affected the culture,

especially the culture within the church

and how we understand what it means to be human,

as well as the differences between man and

woman and at the time so many of these gender fluid or gender dysphoric

stories were on the fringe and about five to seven years ago,

we found that they were moving more and more

to the center.

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