#ashley webb

By: Colin Wright

Published: Jul 17, 2026

Ashley Webb, a man who identifies as a woman and is running for the United States Senate in Maine in the wake of Graham Platner’s sudden withdrawal, went viral recently for promising that he would never lie to or deceive the public. The remark struck many viewers as ironic, given that Webb made it while wearing a dress, presenting himself as a woman, and expecting voters to address him as one.

But I think the more important question is not whether Webb is consciously deceiving anyone. While honesty and transparency are important, being sincere in one’s beliefs is not the same as possessing a sound and reasonable mind. A person can hold genuine beliefs that are wildly detached from reality.

Webb’s online public record reveals that his tether to reality is, at best, alarmingly tenuous, and I believe having a firm grasp of reality should not be viewed as optional for someone seeking one of the most powerful offices in the country.

Webb identifies not only as transgender but also as intersex. Earlier this month, he announced his run for the Democratic nomination in a post titled “Running Openly as Trans Intersex candidate for Senate in Maine.”

The account’s comment history contains some truly extraordinary claims.

Webb claims to ovulate. Webb also claims to experience a monthly period that began when he was 25. However, because Webb was born with “external male parts” rather than “the proper hole,” the supposed menstrual blood cannot leave through a vagina. Instead, Webb believes that a hidden female reproductive tract formed an “exit connection” with his colon, causing monthly rectal bleeding.

“When you don’t have the proper hole, it finds one of two exits,” Webb wrote. “My exit connection was made with my colon. Cause when I get this monthly pain, that is where the blood comes out of.”

Webb has not given any anatomical evidence for this claim. According to his other posts, colonoscopies have not found any such connection, while repeated CT scans have failed to reveal a uterus or ovaries.

Webb does not view these negative findings as evidence against his hypothesis that he’s actually female. Instead, Webb claims that CT scans “can’t find a uterus and ovaries when they enter your gender as male” because doctors supposedly “use a different scanning process for females.”

But that’s not how abdominal and pelvic CT imaging works. A uterus does not become invisible on a CT scan because the patient is simply listed as male.

And rectal bleeding is not a form of menstruation. Menstruation occurs when the uterine lining breaks down and blood and tissue pass from the uterus through the cervix and vagina. Ovulation occurs when an ovary releases an egg. For the blood coming out of Webb’s anus to be menstrual blood, he would need functioning ovaries, a uterus capable of cycling and shedding, and some abnormal passage connecting the reproductive tract to his colon. Those are not conclusions that can be drawn from abdominal pain and rectal bleeding.

Such claims are, frankly, insane.

Webb also posted an image that’s supposedly one of his CT scans. He falsely claimed to be a 5’6’’, 26-year-old female. He’s 6’1’’, 40, and male. He asked other Reddit users whether his “ovaries” looked normal, and simply marked objects on the scan that he believed to be his ovaries.

He said he “just want[ed] to make sure nothing was wrong” with his ovaries, because he “want[s] to be a mom.”

Webb also makes bizarre claims about his chromosomes. In multiple posts, Webb says that a karyotype test came back XY—that of a typical male. Webb also says he was recorded male at birth. Nevertheless, Webb has written, “Pretty positive I am the XX type.”

That claim is impossible to reconcile with Webb’s own description of his body. He reports typical male external genitalia and a pre-treatment testosterone level within the normal male range, indicating functioning testes. Webb is therefore not merely suggesting that he has an obscure chromosomal variation. He appears to believe that he has two fully-functioning testes alongside two fully-functioning ovaries—and, in addition, a uterus capable of menstruation.

Webb’s apparent claim of possessing complete and functional male and female reproductive systems has never been observed in humans. And, given the realities of how sexual development occurs, it never will be.

In the posts I reviewed, Webb did not cite any DSD diagnosis. To the contrary, Webb wrote, “I am trying to get diagnosed,” and elsewhere said that the “proper tests” were still being conducted to confirm his belief. In other words, Webb’s claim of being intersex is a self-diagnosis.

The only real evidence Webb offers is an estrogen panel.

“Have both estrogen 1 and 2 tested,” Webb wrote. “My estrogen 1 was 59pgml and estrogen 2 was 44pgml, my total estrogen 280pgml.”

From this, Webb concluded: “Doctors say I am male, but pretty certain I am female and the doctors are wrong.”

These results appear to correspond to Labcorp’s assays, and they do not show what Webb thinks they show.

Estrone, or E1, is a relatively weak estrogen in terms of its feminizing abilities. Labcorp lists its adult-male reference range as 0 to 174 pg/mL. Webb’s reported E1 level of 59 was therefore entirely within the male range.

Estradiol, or E2, is the main estrogen associated with the female reproductive cycle and the one most relevant to feminizing effects. Labcorp’s standard adult-male range is 7.6 to 42.6 pg/mL. Webb’s E2 of 44 was just 1.4 pg/mL above that upper limit.

Webb’s total-estrogen result of 280 pg/mL was elevated relative to Labcorp’s male range of 56 to 213. The number also falls within Labcorp’s broad reference intervals for premenopausal women. But that does not mean Webb has (or had) a typically female endocrine profile. “Total estrogens” is a broad measurement that does not tell us whether the most biologically relevant estrogens are in the female-typical range, nor does it negate the separate E1 and E2 results.

There is substantial overlap between the lower end of female estrogen reference ranges and the upper end of male ranges. A result’s appearance somewhere within a broad female range does not make it uniquely female.

Webb’s pattern of reasoning is troubling, to say the least. For Webb, every piece of confirming information is accepted, while every piece of disconfirming information is ignored or explained away.

Webb is asking to become one of one hundred people entrusted with making high-level decisions about war, spending, public health, and constitutional rights. Those duties require the ability to distinguish delusion from reality.

Webb has demonstrated a complete inability to make that distinction.

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A troon is divorced from reality. Shocking. 😐