Galatians 3:28
Galatians 3:2828There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
turns up in two JW contexts. First, and most commonly, it is reached for to neutralise — the 144,000 are described as "male virgins who have not defiled themselves with women," and the escape move is "but Galatians says there is neither male nor female in Christ, so the 'male' in Revelation 14 is not literal." Second, the verse is sometimes used to support a flattened heavenly state in which gender itself is abolished. Both moves read the verse as a metaphysical claim about post-death nature rather than as Paul's actual claim about present inheritance rights.
Read as a paragraph. Paul is answering one question across all four verses: who inherits the Abrahamic promise? Verse 26: "all sons of God through faith." Verse 27: "baptised into Christ." Verse 28: neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female. Verse 29: "heirs according to promise." Every category in verse 28 is present-tense and real — Gentiles did not stop being Gentiles, slaves did not stop being slaves, women did not stop being women. Paul is saying these categories do not BAR access to the promise. That is a horizontal claim about access, not a vertical claim about what you become. Then apply it back to : if dissolved gender, it also dissolved ethnicity — so "Jewish" in is empty, and the number 144,000 along with it. The JW reading cannot cancel "male" in without cancelling every other descriptor the Watchtower depends on.
NWT renders heis este en Christō Iēsou as "you are all one in union with Christ Jesus" rather than "you are all one in Christ Jesus" — the systemic NWT en Christō → "in union with" pattern (compare , ). Incidental to the argument's main point (Paul's horizontal-access claim) but worth noting: the relational-union reading fits a soteriology in which membership in a visible organisation mediates that union, which is not what Paul's locative "in Christ" claims.