Former Olympian slams Ketanji Brown Jackson's refusal to define 'woman' amid Lia Thomas controversy

Sen. Marsha Blackburn presses the Supreme Court nominee for the definition of a woman after asking her about a 1996 majority SCOTUS opinion from the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Eli Bremer, a candidate for U.S. Senate and former Olympian who helped Congress write Olympic Committee reform bills in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal, condemned President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, for refusing to define the word "woman," claiming that her response raised a red flag amid contentious battles around transgender athletes and women's sports.

"Despite being a woman, Joe Biden's pick for the Supreme Court could not define a woman because she ‘is not a biologist,’" Bremer told Fox News Digital. "In a world where Lia Thomas, a biological male, is robbing biological female athletes of their titles and scholarships, how should any woman feel that their rights will be protected under Joe Biden's Supreme Court?"

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Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who races on the University of Pennsylvania women's team and who previously competed on the men's team, recently won first at the NCAA Championships. Critics have condemned the NCAA rule allowing male-to-female transgender swimmers like Thomas to compete against women.

Pennsylvania's Lia Thomas waits for a preliminary heat in the Women's NCAA 500 meter freestyle swimming championship start Thursday, March 17, 2022, in at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

"Amongst other things, women have fought for the right to have equity in the workplace and protections through the creation of human resource divisions and have fought for Title