If you had told me when I graduated law school that I would one day use my Ivy League law degree to tell the federal judiciary that women don’t have penises, I wouldn’t have believed you.

Last week, I closely followed an exchange between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn during a nomination hearing about why she permitted a man named William McClain, who goes by the name July Justine Shelby, to be transferred to a federal women’s prison. McClain had previously been convicted of two counts of child rape and one count of distributing child pornography while on parole.