AOC questions the GOP's right to define 'woman' because they believe in free speech rights for corporations

New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the claim that Republicans shouldn't ask what a woman is because they are in favor of free speech rights for corporations.

Yeah, she said that.

Writing on Twitter, AOC said: "How is it that the party who believes corporations are people are suddenly trying to police who is a woman and who isn't?"

"These are the same people who think Arby's is a legal human being," she continued. "I don't see them assigning genders to their shady little LLCs. Give me a break."

AOC's statement essentially says that men who claim to be women by virtue of identifying as such despite having male bodies is totally reasonable, and that Republicans should think so too because they believe that corporations can make documentaries in favor of one political candidate over the other.

AOC is referencing the Supreme Court decision in the case of Citizens United, which said that corporations have the right of free speech and can, for example, make documentaries in favor of a political candidate and release them during an election season. To not allow this kind of speech, the majority opinion read at the time, would create a "chilling effect" on free speech.

While corporations were found to have the right of free speech, they were not found to be entities that reflect biological sex. Indeed, Republicans would be the first to tell you that a corporation is comprised of individuals, each of whom has a biological sex, as determined by the reality of their own bodies.

The Biden administration has been insistent that gender, and not sex, are the determining factor for the classifications of male and female. They are insistent that biological males can become biological women, and the reverse, with the help of medical technology, which they call "gender affirmative care."