Academics who do not know what a woman is should not be the taxpayer-funded gatekeepers of women\u2019s history. But ever since Congress authorized the Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum in 2020, the Smithsonian Institution has made it clear that gender ideology matters more than biological truth in<\/span> its version <\/span><\/i>of women\u2019s history.<\/span><\/p>\n Congress\u2019s next move on the project is to grant the Smithsonian federal land on the National Mall for the museum. In a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing last month on the subject, Congressman Tom Tiffany (R-WI<\/span>) pressed a Smithsonian Institution representative with a simple question: \u201cHow can we be sure that the women celebrated in the Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum are not men?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Smithsonian staffer dodged the question, and subcommittee members ripped the congressman for what they deemed a baseless inquiry. But the question hit the nail on the head: the Smithsonian pretends that men can be women.<\/span><\/p>\n While the brick-and-mortar Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum has yet to earn a permanent building, the Smithsonian\u2019s mobile exhibits prove Rep. Tiffany correct. In its 2023 exhibit \u201c<\/span>Girlhood: It\u2019s Complicated<\/span><\/a>\u201d, the Smithsonian exhibited Jazz Jennings<\/a>, a trans-identifying male reality TV star.<\/span><\/p>\n Jazz was socially transitioned<\/a> by his parents at age two,\u00a0pumped with puberty blockers at eleven, and surgically mutilated at eighteen.<\/span><\/p>\n David Crotty\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Here\u2019s what the Smithsonian has to say about Jazz:<\/span><\/p>\n For many, the rigid rules about what it means to be a girl are too small and too simple. Jazz Jennings is one of those girls. She shares her girlhood with millions of Americans on television and reminds us that girls can be assigned male at birth and that girlhood comes in many forms. Jazz always knew she \u201cwas a girl trapped inside a boy\u2019s body.\u201d As a toddler, she felt a roar of emotions at not being able to communicate what she was experiencing. But Jazz was lucky because her family listened, learned, and supported her.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n First, Jazz is not a girl. He was deceived at just two years of age. <\/span>Second, girls cannot be \u201cassigned male at birth.\u201d Girls are young human females; sex is immutable, not \u201cassigned.\u201d <\/span>Finally, no toddler is \u201ca girl trapped inside a boy\u2019s body.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n If the Smithsonian flunks a single-room exhibit, how can they be trusted with an entire building? The Smithsonian\u2019s feature of Jazz in its \u201cGirlhood\u201d exhibit is flagrantly disqualifying.<\/span><\/p>\n The institution\u2019s problem boils down to its own academics and advisors. On the website\u2019s featured \u201cBiographies: Every Woman Has a Story\u201d page, Smithsonian-associated scholars hail men and historical \u201cwomen.\u201d First in the list is <\/span>Roderick \u201cLavergne\u201d Cox<\/span>, a trans-identifying male actor described by the Smithsonian as \u201cassigned male at birth,\u201d and \u201cthe first openly transgender person nominated for an Emmy.\u201d The Smithsonian made a distinct choice to acknowledge \u201cLavergne\u201d as simultaneously male and \u201cwoman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The Smithsonian also features seven other males: <\/span>United States Congressman Timothy \u201cSarah\u201d McBride <\/span>and Biden-era Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, <\/span>Richard \u201cRachel\u201d Levine<\/span>, \u201cthe highest-ranking openly transgender government official in U.S. history,\u201d <\/span>Cecilia Chung<\/span><\/a> (a California based advocate for sex-rejecting procedures), <\/span>Marsha P. Johnson<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Andrea Jenkins<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Sylvia Rivera<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Janet Mock<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>It is unacceptable that eight men are hailed as historical women on a taxpayer-funded \u201c.gov\u201d website.<\/span><\/p>\n Kent Nishimura\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If the Smithsonian Institution \u2014 with its hordes of PhD-clad ideologues \u2014 cannot acknowledge that a woman is an adult human female, it should not be trusted to narrate women\u2019s history, especially with the taxpayer\u2019s dime on federal soil.<\/span><\/p>\n The Smithsonian\u2019s demonstrated radicalism must be top of mind as Congress works to authorize the construction of the Smithsonian American Women\u2019s History Museum. <\/span>On March 18, the House Committee on Administration held a markup to advance the authorization, this time, however, with an amendment<\/a> offered by <\/span>Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL<\/span>) to prohibit the new museum from portraying men as women.\u00a0<\/span>The bill passed in committee, but Democrats uniformly voted \u201cNo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n How ironic. Democrats care more about transgender ideology than a long-awaited women\u2019s museum.<\/span><\/p>\n The Smithsonian Institution cannot be trusted with women\u2019s history. If the Women\u2019s History Museum goes up, Congress must do its due diligence to ensure that it operates under a strict, brazenly explicit federal authorization requiring that no male be presented as a \u201cwoman\u201d in its exhibits \u2014 no exceptions. Better to have no museum at all than one that presents males as \u201cwomen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Hannah Lape is Legislative Strategist for Concerned Women for America<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest public policy women\u2019s organization. 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