The Biden administration awarded a biological man an International Women of Courage Award in honor of International Women’s Day during a March 8 ceremony at the White House. The irony wasn’t lost on those paying attention. 

The ceremony, hosted by first lady Jill Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, honored “11 extraordinary women from around the world” who are “working to build a brighter future for all,” according to a State Department press release. 

Alba Rueda, the biological male recipient who identifies as a transgender woman, serves as Argentina’s Special Envoy for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and is the country’s first transgender politician to hold such a position. 

The White House ceremony exemplifies how far the Biden administration will go to replace women with biological men “plastered in makeup and wearing women’s clothing,” the American Family Association (AFA) said in a news release. 

“It is an extraordinary moment in American history when a biological male is given an award meant to empower women—thereby diminishing actual women,” said AFA Executive Vice President Ed Vitagliano. “One wonders why radical feminist groups aren’t up in arms over this administration’s push to relegate women to the back of the bus once again. Perhaps that’s just the price the feminists must pay in order to overthrow the moral foundations of the nation once and for all.”

Christian apologist and author Michael Brown tweeted about the award and also mentioned it as an example of events around the globe that signal the world is losing its mind. 

“Back in the States, the Biden administration was rightly pilloried for presenting an ‘International Women of Courage Award’ to a biological male who identifies as female. As Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, ‘It’s International Women’s Day—a good time to remember that Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is.’”

In his own tweet, Brown referred to the event as misogyny.

“It really seems as if the ongoing trend to honor trans-identified biological males for being the first-ever ‘woman’ to achieve something (or the ‘best’ woman in a category) is the latest form of misogyny. Men make better women than women do!”

Conservative commentator Dana Loesh tweeted: “Nice of FLOTUS to encourage the diminishment of women on ‘international women’s day.’ Erasing women is abusive.” 

Donna Holt, who describes herself as a “Conservative/Republican,” tweeted: “The Biden administration awarded a biological man an award for courage in honor of International Women’s Day during a Wednesday ceremony at the White House. I just need to get off of this train. I don’t want to be on it when it gets to where it is going.”

Above: [First Lady Jill Biden congratulates Alba Rueda.]

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