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Reading Time: 4 minutesConservative podcaster Matt Walsh speaks with the Maasai Tribe of Nairobi, Africa, in search of an answer to the question, What is a Woman?. Screenshot: Youtube/TheDailyWire

In January, an episode of The Dr Phil Show was dubbed controversial in which trans activists debated conservative podcaster Matt Walsh over the topic of gender ideology and identity.

Walsh argued against the introduction of transgenderism to children and the use of non-gendered pronouns, but it was the issue of womanhood that revealed a critical chink in gender ideologys woke armour.

When asked the question, What is a Woman?, the trans activists were unable to define the term even though they repeatedly made the claim that trans-women were women.

Walshs everyman demeanour and composure in questioning is akin to the comical style of Michael Moore or Borat.

The absurdity of gender ideology was on full display as the activists struggled to give a coherent answer, leaning on vague nonsensical statements.

Clips of the exchange went viral and pressure from the radical left forced CBS and Hulu to pull the episode off their broadcasting services.

Encouraged by the fallout, Walsh and his Daily Wire colleagues have produced the entertaining, illuminating yet at times frightening documentary What is a Woman? that exposes the flawed logic behind the gender ideology movement.

Released on 2 June to coincide with the beginning of Pride Month, What is a Woman? takes the viewer around the United States and across the world on a mission to answer the question proposed in the films title.

Walsh lays the foundation for his investigation by seeking to establish definitions of sex and gender in use today through a range of well-balanced and eye-opening interviews.

While progressive protestors and gender ideology professors stammer their way to incoherency, it is the conservative responses given by the Maasai Tribe of Nairobi, Africa, and an elderly Star Wars shopkeeper which appear to be grounded in reality.

Walshs everyman demeanour and composure in questioning is akin to the comical style of Michael Moore or Borat. Its remarkably effective in creating the right environment for his subjects to open up, usually to their detriment.

The documentary touches upon key gender-related controversies such as the dominance of trans women in womens sports

An interview with a family therapist illustrates this perfectly as Walsh is affirmed for questioning his own gender after confessing a love of scented candles and the TV show Sex in the City.

Later, clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson speaks on the dangers of therapists who focus on gender-affirming patients who have come to them with real problems.

The documentary touches upon key gender-related controversies such as the dominance of trans women in womens sports and the fear of some female athletes to voice concerns about engaging biological males, both in competition and in the shower room.

Most disturbing is a segment on the indoctrination of young children and the effects of transition surgeries.

Psychiatrist Miriam Grossman gives a history of the unethical techniques and studies that have shaped the transgender movement, while paediatrician Dr Michelle Forcier gives an unapologetic account on her use of dangerous puberty blockers, used to chemically castrate sex offenders, to transition children.

An emotional testimony on the painful effects of transition surgeries by trans man and founder of TReVoices, Scott Newgent, really hits home the sinister truth of the transgender agenda.

Newgent breaks down while revealing that this experimental surgery is being conducted on children without any discussion of the risks or its permanence.

What is a Woman? provides a fair scope of both leftist and conservative beliefs on core gender issues, however it could be a more robust resource for Christians if a little more time was given to those arguments against gender ideology and the transgender agenda.

It wouldnt be a Matt Walsh production if it didnt mention his best-selling childrens book Johnny the Walrus about a little boy whos forced, by the internet people, to make a decision between the little boy he is and the things he pretends to be.

But in the context of shining a light on the dangers of the indoctrination of children, Walshs unashamed plug is forgivable.

What is a Woman? provides a fair scope of both leftist and conservative beliefs on core gender issues, however it could be a more robust resource for Christians if a little more time was given to those arguments against gender ideology and the transgender agenda.

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This is an odd looking graph of traffic to my latest YouTube video.

You might want to congratulate me on that sudden surprising surge of traffic in the middle of the night, but dont. Apparently, thats when the magical YouTube algorithm started recommending the video to others, and it brought an influx of Peterson worshippers, as the comments reveal.

all these years and you still cant get 10 k subs??? JP just hit 5 million and growing. Youre in the final stage of your life, stop being so jelous. Btw, you shpould check out JPs interview with Roger Penrose, eat your heart out.

But heres the thing: Im not concerned about traffic. I look at the most popular videos on the medium, and its garbage like Pewdiepie and the Paul brothers and bizarre twisted animated childrens videos designed to milk clicks out of babies. Im content with my tiny little niche. Ive also got a real job, fortunately, and the $50 my channel brings in every month is fine.

Then there are the feeble defenses of Peterson:

Peterson clearly states that what he is saying is highly speculative. If your going to critique the man at least do it honestly.

Theres a whole bit in my video where I point out that Peterson is flinging about the word speculation as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Useful speculation has to be built on some kind of empirical, testable framework. Peterson is lazy and doesnt do the work of justifying it.

Most common, though, are the people who deny his transphobia (the thing that made him famous!) and have a knee-jerk hatred of social justice.

I realize Petersons claims about consciousness traveling up and down the micro and macro levels is nonsense, but so are the accusations of transphobia towards Peterson and Dawkins. Myers never really bothers to explain how theyre transphobic. At least not in this video. I think Myers should maybe spend more time investigating his own biases and irrationalism than those of Peterson if he has such obvious blind spots.

I thought Petersons transphobic comments have been so thoroughly covered elsewhere that I didnt have to discuss them, and could focus on where he intrudes stupidly on my area of expertise, biology. I guess I was wrong. Do I need to make my next video about that? Id rather not, because Peterson is such a twit.

Of course, there are still swarms of anti-SJW clowns out there.

I am not going to talk much about Peterson, but here is my problem. PZ Myers is supposed to be a scientist and yet he lets social justice which has nothing to do with Science leak in.

I help a Transgender person overseas and help feed him and fix his bike, so this isnt about hate or anything, but pronouns and having many sexes is against the Scientific data.Its more like a problem with the mind itself and social justice should not be mixed with Science.

This is why I am upset, because if you are a Scientist, you should have NOTHING TO DO WITH STUFF THATS NOT SCIENCE AT ALL, its more pseudoscience than actual real science.

Disappointed in you PZ, I thought you would be better than that.

This is really shameful and I think thats worse than whatever Peterson is going on about.

What Scientific data is against pronouns and having many sexes? I suspect he couldnt name anything.

Im also unsurprised that there are people who think social justice should not be mixed with Science, but then have no problem at all with the irrational, unjust garbage that Peterson freely mixes in to his science-free babbling.

I guess Im going to have to make more spider videos to flush away these clowns and get my traffic down where its supposed to be.

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Roy Edroso speculates about future Depp projects.

Saucy Jack vs. The Sea Hags. The woke Disney corporation wont revive the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise except in a feminazi version, but that doesnt mean we cant still have Johnny Depp riding the seven seas as legendary buccaneer Saucy Jack Grackle! In this totally separate and original IP hes put on a little weight, but hes still the drunk and disorderly rascal youve come to know and love. In his glad rags, mascara, and mannerisms he cuts a dashing figure and all the ladies love him except for the Sea-Hags, an eighteenth-century gang of nasty women who, damaged by daddy issues, roam the high seas in search of psychic compensation and plunder. They despise Jack Grackle for his roguish masculinity and have vowed to sink his ship The Dark Gem and to literally emasculate him! But Jack leads them on a merry chase with much derring-do and CGI, ending in a literally ravishing, literally climactic physical struggle with Hag Queen Millie Bobbie Brown in which he shows her what rolling in the deep really means and makes everything work out! With several of Hollywoods top young actresses as the Sea Hags (who, when they remove their spectacles and shake out their hair, are actually super hot) and, as Jacks pirate gang, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and Ben Shapiro as Half-Pint. Special cameo by Tom Cruise as The Bitchmaster!

I like it. I wouldnt watch it, but I appreciate the authenticity of his crew, none of whom could act their way out of a soggy, weevily biscuit. Reality is that while something that blatant wouldnt get made, poor Johnny is going to have to resign himself to third tier movies and a lot of bad guy roles.

I also notice something in the comments over there: like me, a lot of lefties sat there quietly throughout the trial, doing their best to ignore it all. Maybe thats not the best strategy? You think?

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MILTON"Seniors, this is your moment," Milton School Committee Chair Ada Rosmarin saidto the Milton High School Class of 2022.

Rosmarin welcomed the class,friends and familiesto the Milton High School graduation ceremony on the school's field Sunday, June 5. She readpoetAmanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb"and told graduating students that the Milton community sends their best wishes.

"Savor this moment and hold hope close to your hearts as you head out to take on the world and make it a better place,"Rosmarin said.

Selected student speaker AngelinaColn'spoetic speech recapped the 276 graduates'experiences, from learning over Zoom to the distancecreating bonds between students.

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"We solved an equation that we didn't know how to do, so when you're feeling weak and weary remember the obstacles you moved, the negativity you overthrew, the motivation you tend to lose, the assignments that were past due. Through all the voices, chaos and commotion you held yourself up, fighting for something new,"Coln said.

Her speech was met with a standing ovation.

Class President Liam Goodman reminisced aboutthe class' high school experience, noting that membersonly had a year and a half of "real high school." Yet, they shared championships, musicals and disco nights. He applauded the class' kindness and inclusionand reminded the graduates to be proud of where they are.

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"It doesn't matter when you joined the Milton community, the second you became a Milton High student, you became family,"Goodman said. "You will forever be a part of this Milton community."

Before awarding the diplomas, Principal Karen Cahill had partingwordsfor the class. She said the graduates continuedto perseveredespite the time they lost and the disappointment they faced. Cahilldescribed them as resilient, determined, inclusive andpassionate.

"Whatever path you choose, I hope you know that you will always have a place here at Milton High School,"Cahill said.

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Guled Adam, Norah Affanato, Saed Altimash, Zaviah Andrade, Elle Anthony, Isabella Antunez, Daniel Appleman, Izabella Astrofsky, Amber Atkins, Camila Badia, Patrick Balerna, Camryn Balestra, William A. Bennett, William D. Bennett, Elizabeth Bennett, Nora Biagiotti, Kaitlin Blackburn, Hadley Blasdale, Sola Blue, Meckenzie Boylan, Alexandra Boylan, Julia Bradley, Tyler Bravo, Olivia Brennick, Gregory Brinn, Gabriella Brown, Aurora Bchau, Christopher Burns, Brendan Butler, Sergei Bylyshi, Bensly Byron.

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Sofia Harris, Isaiah Hassell, John Hegarty, Ciara Hensley, Michael Higgins, Ryan Higgins, Maxwell Hollingsworth-Hays, Michael Howard, Tucker Hurley, Princeton Iwuala, Na'Kailah Jean-Guillaume, James Jenkins Jr., Evan Johnson, Daragh Jordan, Emily Karimbakas, Daniel Keating, Ryan Kelley, Grace Kelly, Tyler Kennedy, Katherine Kiely, Mia Knight, Jordan Kooffreh, Anderson Korman, Sophia Labbe, Melissa LaBelle, Nicole Lacombe, Michael Laine, Joshua Lam, Jonathan Lamarre, Detrick LaneIII, Shaina Lasoff, Liliana LaVita, Linsey Le, Tracy Le, Christopher Le, Maxwell Lenz, Thomas Lesser, Camden Levreault, Tatiana Lopes Alvarado, Nicolas Lorizio, Ian Lundeen, Ava Lynch, Alona Lynch, Michal Lyons.

Madison MacLean, Shenia Mahase, Benjamin Malisheski, Amaiah Manion, Sophia Manning, Caleb Marquez, Amari Marsman, Lauren Martin, Allen Martin, William Matejka, Benjamin McCormick, Mason McCullough, Hayley McDermott, Maeve McDonough, Mairaed McDougall, William McElroy, Thomas McGettrick, Caroline McHugh, Jack McKenna, Kevin McManus, Rori Middleton, Madeleine Miller, Jared Mitchell, Maxwell Mitchell, Jaron Montgomery, Lucy Moynagh, Mackenzie Mullaney, Isabel Murley, Donovan Murray, David Murtagh, Mary Mylod.

Lucas Navarro, Ella Neret, Trina Nguyen, Simon Nguyen, Maren Nixon, Anya O'Brien, Mary O'Connell, Declan O'Connor, Keenan O'Donnell, Marcus Ollivierre, Bradan O'Loughlin, Nina O'Loughlin, Nkechinyere Onyiriuka, Osaivbie Osifo, William Ouellet, Matthew Paquette, Cullen Pasquantonio, Lily Pathak, Alexander Paxhia, Tait Peloquin, Chloe Pelton, Jacob Pelton, Nicholas Pelton, Joseph Pender, Casie Peterson, Myles Phung, Sarah Pierre, Cameron Pina, Kai Poles, Roisin Queally, Lucas Quijano.

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After Johnny Depps successful defamation claim against Amber Heard, many observers are wondering if a recalibration of First Amendment law is occurring in the United States.

By all indications, it was a close case. The jury spent dozens of hours deliberating, evaluating six weeks worth of testimony and evidence. It ultimately decided that the preponderance of evidence favored Depp. Thats a purely probabilistic judgment, reflecting a conclusion that Johnny Depp was at least 1 percent more likely to be telling the truth than Amber Heard. Clearly the jury did not find Depp wholly credible, either: It also (somewhat paradoxically) held Depp liable to the tune of $2 million for statements his attorney made calling Heards claims a hoax.

In other words, it was a toss-up, and it would be a mistake to draw any sweeping conclusions from it, even though thats exactly whats happening right now on social media.

I cant help but think of similar alarm bells rung by many in the media back in 2016. That was when the former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan obtained a judgment against the website Gawker for publishing snippets of a video depicting him having sex. It was a shocking verdictnot because Gawker was found liable (there is absolutely no reasonable argument for publishing a surreptitiously recorded private sexual encounter between consenting adults)but because the jury saw fit to award Hogan $140 million in damages, sending Gawker into bankruptcy.

How could journalists critically report about public figures without facing the same fate as Gawker? As it turned out, just fine. Shortly after Gawkers demise, The New Yorker and The New York Times catalyzed the #MeToo movement by exposing Harvey Weinsteins behavior. In the years that followed, hundreds more powerful men have been exposed as abusers. Hardly any of them have challenged the allegations in court. Indeed, the majority of defamation lawsuits arising out of #MeToo have been filed by victims suing abusers for calling them liars, not vice versa.

If you ask practicing First Amendment lawyers how the Gawker verdict changed the way they do their job, most will tell you it had little effect. More than anything, it was a wake-up call that juries value privacy differently than they do reputation. When the dust settles in the Depp-Heard case, the same is likely to be true. The First Amendment is enormously protective of media reporting on credible accusations of sexual abuse. It is telling that Depp did not name the ACLU, which helped draft the op-ed at the center of the case, or The Washington Post (which published it).

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Though the robust protection enjoyed by news media may be cold comfort to Amber Heard, the reality is that cases like this defy easy categorization because they are so dependent on the specific facts at issue. Unlike other First Amendment protections (for example, an article that accurately describes a judicial proceeding is absolutely protected under the fair-report doctrine), a truth defense usually requires a credibility assessment by a jury. That can come only at the end of an expensive, time-consuming, and highly invasive public trial. There was never any reasonable possibility of a judge throwing the case out on Heards behalf, and those expressing shock that Depp went the distance were engaging in wishful thinking.

Depp has more wealth and fame than Heard, but both parties had the benefit of experienced, well-resourced attorneys who presented comprehensive narratives to the public. Dozens of witnesses were called, expensive expert witnesses were retained, and videos and text messages were presented as evidence. No stone was left unturned by either side. The jury got to hear from both parties directly. It was a fair trial.

Despite the verdict, to call this a clean sweep for Depp is misguided. He won his case on a narrow question of whether he physically assaulted his wife. To do so, he had to admit to shocking behavior that anyone could call abuse. That is hardly an exoneration. There are no real winners here, and the simultaneous celebration of #JusticeForJohnny and piling on against Heard online is disturbing, particularly because it began well before any of the evidence was even presented.

Every case is different, and every jury is unique. If Depp and Heard re-ran this trial (yet) again, it may well have gone the other way. The bottom line is that seven Fairfax County, Virginia, residents found in favor of Depp. They have no more say about the future of the First Amendment than the six Pinellas County, Florida, jurors in the Gawker case. First Amendment advocates need not view this as an insurmountable blow to free speech.

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