Australian feminist activist Clementine Ford faced intense scrutiny during Friday’s episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored after she struggled to answer a straightforward question from host Piers Morgan: “What is a woman?”
“I have a question for you, Clementine. It’s a very simple question,” Morgan began. “What is a woman?”
Ford, hesitant to engage in the topic, initially deflected. “Piers, I’m not going down the path of debating trans women with you. Trans women are women,” she replied.
Pressed again for a definition, Ford eventually responded, “A woman is someone who at least at some point in her life felt scared of a man.”
Her answer was met with immediate pushback and mockery from other panelists, including The Crucible host Andrew Wilson, who called it “the stupidest thing” he had ever heard. Morgan criticized Ford for attempting to lecture others on womanhood while being unable to clearly define it.
“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 attempted to argue that defining women strictly by biology was reductive. “I think that reducing women specifically to your biological deciding of what you think a woman is—”
“It’s called science,” Morgan cut in. “It’s their chromosomes. You have different chromosomes to me. It’s not me saying that, I’m not writing the science.”
As the exchange continued, Ford accused the panel of being “obsessed” with defining trans women. Morgan shot back, arguing that raising concerns about biological men competing in women’s sports or entering women’s spaces is not bigotry, but a valid issue of fairness and safety.
The debate added fuel to the ongoing controversy surrounding gender identity, women’s rights, and the implications of transgender inclusion in sports and other female-only arenas.