Matt Walsh’s new documentary What is a Woman? is a work of simple genius. Walsh has boiled down a debate LGBT activists wish to portray as hopelessly complicated to a single, central question—and it is one that, as it turns out, trans activists cannot or will not answer. The most shocking aspect of this film is how many advocates of gender theory were willing to sit down with him, considering how well-known his position on these issues is—and it is mindboggling that, despite knowing what Walsh would ask, none of the interviewees could answer the question: What is a woman?
As a result, this documentary is actually ground-breaking. The film features a gender studies professor saying that searching for “the truth” is “deeply transphobic.” An abortionist who does a sideline in selling sex-change drugs to kids attempted to feebly defend her work but came off looking simultaneously delusional and dangerous. And on a visit to Kenya, Walsh reduced Masai tribespeople to gales of laughter by asking them if a man could become a woman and if they’d ever heard of a “non-binary” person. This film is tremendously effective, which is why critics aren’t even bothering to attack it—they prefer to cover it with a veil of silence.
One of the most chilling conversations was with Dr. Marci Bowers, a male doctor who underwent a sex change and now identifies as female. Bowers has done over 2,250 male-to-female vaginoplasties and 3,900 sex change surgeries in total. Walsh didn’t choose some obscure kook to interview—Bowers is considered, according to his own website, to be a “pioneer in the field of Gender Affirmation Surgery.”
