This chapter reviews the doctrinal and historical controversy surrounding the ordination of women in Buddhist traditions. In the contemporary period, Theravāda female monastic orders have attempted to create a female monastic order (bhikkhunī order) in Thailand. The Thai government and its monks have rejected such efforts. In addition to official resistance, people have exhibited violent backlashes to such attempts. While both sides of the polemic provide doctrinal justifications for their arguments, these justifications do not remove the harm caused to women occluded from ordination or those ridiculed and threatened once they ordain. This chapter tracks the violence of the gender discrimination through both monastic practices and the larger Thai society. Finally, it reviews three Buddhists justifications for gendered violence through Buddhist doctrine.