
Marci Bowers, who performs gender reassignment surgeries and is transgender, and Michelle Forcier, who has a medical degree from the University of Connecticut and did a pediatrics residence at University of Utah, both spoke highly in regards to affirming a child's gender identity, and of transitioning. Speaking with people out on the street across the country, from Hollywood to DC, the public generally could not come up with a straight answer to the question "what is a woman," with some saying that a woman is anyone that identifies as such.Ī number of professionals that Walsh spoke to, like Dr. Later, Comfrey stated, "I’m not a woman, so I can’t really answer that." That's the beginning of a lot of people’s, like, gender identity development journeys," Comfrey said.

"Yeah, Matt, that question right there, like, that question is like, when it's asked with a lot of curiosity, right. I’ve watched Sex in the City," Walsh joked. When Walsh poses the film’s overarching question to Comfrey, Comfrey first pauses, then respond with "that’s a great candle." Some women have penises, right? Some men have vaginas," she said, noting that assigning a gender at birth based on anatomy is "not how gender works." "And we know now that, like, that sex and gender are so much more than just this binary.

Walsh first speaks with licensed marital and family therapist Gert Comfrey, who told Walsh that people are "assigned" a gender at birth by doctors, who make that decision based on the genitalia of the child. The question, which is also the name of the film, takes Walsh across the country in pursuit of answers, talking to professionals of all types in regards to gender, sexuality, and transgender identity. On Wednesday, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh premiered a documentary based around answering the question, "what is a woman?"
