Feminist activist Clementine Ford was unable to provide a clear definition of the word “woman” during a segment on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Friday, sparking widespread backlash and criticism from the panel and host Piers Morgan himself.
The exchange began when Morgan asked Ford a question that has become increasingly controversial in debates surrounding transgender ideology and women’s rights.
“I have a question for you, Clementine. It’s a very simple question,” Morgan said during the segment.
“But I think it’ll be an interesting question to ask you. What is a woman?”
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Ford declined to answer directly, responding instead, “Piers, I’m not going down the path of debating trans women with you. Trans women are women.”
After further prompting from Morgan, Ford eventually gave an answer: “Okay, I’ll tell you. But I know that this is your tactic, this is what you do. What is a woman? I’ll tell you what a woman is. A woman is someone who at least at some point in her life felt scared of a man.”
The panel immediately reacted, with The Crucible host Andrew Wilson calling the answer “the stupidest thing” he had ever heard.
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Morgan followed by stating that Ford’s inability to define “woman” disqualified her from “lecturing women on how they should behave.”
“I come back to my question to you,” Morgan said. “Your inability to say what a woman is, and yet here you are lecturing women on how they should behave as women is completely perverse.”
Ford then argued that reducing womanhood to biological factors was flawed.
“I think that reducing women specifically to your biological deciding of what you think a woman is—” she began, before Morgan interrupted.
“It’s called science. It’s their chromosomes. You have different chromosomes to me,” Morgan replied.
“It’s not me saying that, I’m not writing the science.”
Ford then accused the panel of being “obsessed” with defining trans-identifying men, to which Morgan responded that raising concerns about the impact on women’s safety in sports and private spaces should not be dismissed as bigotry.
Morgan also pointed to specific cases of injuries caused by male athletes competing in women’s sports.
In April 2023, 19-year-old volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered a traumatic brain injury, a brain bleed, partial paralysis, and loss of peripheral vision after being struck in the head by a ball spiked by a male athlete competing in a girls’ match.
Another incident in Lowell, Massachusetts, involved a six-foot male basketball player with facial hair who injured several girls during a game.
Footage of the incident, reported by the Heritage Foundation, showed one girl falling to the ground, clutching her back after a collision.
These examples were cited as evidence of the physical danger posed by allowing male athletes to compete against females.
Morgan also mentioned Lia Thomas, a swimmer who ranked 544th in men’s swimming but went on to win national championships after joining the NCAA women’s division in 2022.
Morgan and other panelists criticized the broader reluctance to acknowledge biological differences in discussions about fairness and safety for women in sports. The topic has become a focal point in recent political and legal decisions.
In the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court ruled in April that trans-identifying males are not legally classified as women under the country’s equality laws.
In the United States, President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February banning male athletes from competing in women’s sports, reinforcing his administration’s stance on protecting women’s athletic opportunities.
The debate on Piers Morgan Uncensored highlighted the ongoing divide between proponents of biological definitions of sex and advocates of gender self-identification, with Friday’s episode drawing sharp lines on where those definitions impact public policy, athletic safety, and women’s rights.
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