The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh published a viral documentary last year that summed up the absurdity of the gender ideology debate with one simple question: What is a woman? This week, that question made its way into a court case, further exposing just how logically bereft this ideology and its adherents have become.

The case in question involves a Wyoming sorority, which was sued by six of its members after admitting a biological male who claims to identify as a girl. The girls alleged in their suit that Kappa Kappa Gamma betrayed its own bylaws, which state that “a new member shall be a woman,” and put at risk their safety by allowing 6-foot, 2-inch, 260-pound Artemis Langford inside their home and intimate spaces.

The girls cited multiple incidents in which Langford had made them fear for their comfort and privacy. In court, they testified that he peeped on girls living in the home as they went in and out of the common restroom, sometimes with a visible erection. He also asked the girls disturbing questions about “what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control,” and made it clear he was still sexually interested in women.

However, none of this mattered to the U.S. District Court for Wyoming, which dismissed the girls’ case on Monday after deciding that the issue falls under “Kappa Kappa Gamma’s bedrock right as a private, voluntary organization — and one this Court may not invade.” Judge Alan Johnson admitted in his ruling that the sorority’s bylaws clearly state members must be women — but how the group chooses to define the word “woman,” he said, is up to them.

“The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today,” Johnson wrote. “The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman’, otherwise undefined in the non-profit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.”

To be clear, Johnson did not decline to define the word “woman” because the definition is self-explanatory and therefore unnecessary. Rather, he declined to define the word because he apparently believes it is so subjective that anyone can define it however they choose.

This is absurd. Sex is objective, as U.S. law has repeatedly affirmed. It is the fact that underpins words such as “man” and “woman” and informs our understanding of basic biological concepts, upon which even gender ideology depends.

That a sitting judge, an official tasked with reading and interpreting the laws and applying them to facts in cases, is unable, or more likely unwilling, to say as much out loud is a testament to just how corrupting gender ideology is. It corrupts logic, common sense, and courage, which is why just about every institution, including the courts, has capitulated to it.

Kaylee McGhee White is the editor of Restoring America for the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.