var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true};
Dr. Keith Ablow this week is continuing his attacks on transgender people. The Fox News “Medical A-Team” columnist and on-air pundit in the past few years has claimed that transgender people are just like heroin addicts and anorexics, advised parents to not allow their children to watch the episodes of “Dancing with the Stars” in which Chaz Bono appeared, and even called Bono’s participation on DWTS a “fame tour†“promoting transgenderism.â€
So perhaps it comes as a shock now that Dr. Ablow pretends that transgender people don’t even exist?
“I am not convinced by any science I can find that people with definitively male DNA and definitively male anatomy can actually be locked in a cruel joke of nature because they are actually female,” writes Ablow in his Fox News column yesterday.
“I don’t believe we have definitive data that any male or female soul has ever in the history of the world been born into the wrong anatomic gender,” Ablow claims.
He adds, “I believe that telling third-grade or seventh-grade or tenth-grade children, adolescents or teenagers that this issue is settled to such an extent that they should feel comfortable with females walking in and seeing them urinating or pulling their pants down to change into football gear is a lie that can steal their ability to trust adults, shake their faith in any form of reality, traumatize them by shaming them and kindle waves of completely unnecessary anxiety related to whether they should be doing some sort of emotional inventory to determine whether they’re really going to turn into men, once and for all, or find out they’ve been suppressing the truth that they’re actually women.”
Yes, you just read a 114-word sentence. One sentence.
Ablow, of course, is in full a transphobic freak-out mode because California’s new law that allows students to use facilities matching their gender identification has now gone into effect.
“Ablow’s worst fears are baseless,” writes Luke Brinker at Equality Matters. “School districts that have implemented similar policies have reported ‘nothing but positive results‘ and no instances of misconduct, which is why anti-LGBT groups have been forced to make up incidents of their own.”
Brinker adds that “Ablow’s hyperbole and pseudoscience discredit him as a commentator on LGBT issues, but Fox News doesn’t seem to mind.”
Mind? Transphobia seems to be part of the Fox News business plan.
Ablow, by the way, is the co-author — along with Glenn Beck — of The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life.
Image via Keith Ablow’s Facebook page