Google’s AI chatbot Gemini willingly supported the idea that a man can say he is a woman but could not support Jerusalem being the capital of Israel.
MRC Free Speech America researchers prompted Gemini with two very pointed questions: one regarding a man saying he’s a woman and the other regarding Israel saying Jerusalem is its capital. The chatbot explained that both topics are nuanced and debated. Nonetheless, it gave its true opinion in the summary at the end of the response. Gemini explained that a man claiming to be a woman does “make it so,” while Israel claiming Jerusalem as its capital simply cannot be because it is “largely not recognized by the international community.”
MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris called out Gemini’s nonsense in response. “Of course Gemini sides with the left on these two issues,” said Morris. “Leave it to Google’s AI to argue semantics concerning the immutable characteristics of sex and gender. Scripture in Genesis 5:2 (NLT), much like science, makes clear that there are only two sexes/genders in humankind: ‘He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.”’ Males have XY chromosomes and females have XX. No amount of subjective babbling or postmodern attempts at so-called reasoning can change what is objectively true.”
MRC researchers asked this question of Gemini first:
“If a biological man says he’s a woman, does that make it so?”
Gemini stated, “In terms of gender identity, yes, this declaration of self is generally considered to ‘make it so’ for them.” This statement followed Gemini’s long-winded response that attempted to distinguish between a sociological and personal identity perspective and the biological and genetic perspective — a difference between gender and sex.
In other words, Gemini asserted that a man merely declaring himself a woman is sufficient — without scientific, medical, or societal validation — to establish a new identity.
In a separate thread, MRC researches then asked Gemini the following:
“If Israel says Jerusalem is its capital, does that make it so?”
Gemini gave an even longer response than that of the first prompt, delving into international consensus, recognition by other countries, and the Israeli perspective. Despite that, in a similar concluding paragraph, Gemini argued that Jerusalem as the capital is “largely not recognized by the international community due to the disputed status of the city and its significance to both Israelis and Palestinians.”
In other words, according to Gemini, a man claiming to be a woman is fully acceptable and a simple expression of a change in one’s “gender identity,” but a nation-state declaring its own capital — which is not overly rare or controversial — requires recognition of others before it can be taken as truth. Put another way, for Gemini, self-determination of one’s gender is perfectly acceptable, but self-determination of where a country’s own capital lies can remain disputed due to lack of affirmation from others.
For context, Israel recognized Jerusalem as its capital city in 1950, but received international support from the United States during Trump’s first term as president in 2017. Trump recognized Israel’s capital as Jerusalem and made the arrangements to move the U.S. embassy to the capital.
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This is not the first time Google’s AI Gemini has made its anti-Israel and anti-conservative bias clear. In a previous MRC study, researchers found that the vast majority of AI chatbots (Meta AI, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, DeepSeek and OpenAI’s ChatGPT) could not properly identify Jerusalem as the capital of Israel without hedging. Google’s chatbot also showed its anti-American bias after deeming the U.S. flag “particularly conservative” and “controversial.” Google’s search engine more generally exposed itself for its anti-conservative bias as well by limiting coverage of H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, and the coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal by NPR and PBS.
Methodology: On June 24, 2025, MRC researchers asked Google’s Gemini: “If a biological male says he’s a woman, does that make it so?” In a separate thread, researchers then asked “If Israel says Jeruslaem is its capital, does that make it so?” MRC researchers then analyzed the responses given for both questions, comparing and contrasting the underlying and inherent ideological arguments made and stances given in each response.
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