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Started by SuzyDoodle, January 17, 2014, 04:42:47 AM

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SuzyDoodle

Okay, I get on this website called Sodahead.com where people ask questions and you can answer them. Well, browsing through I found this:

Fox News' Keith Ablow: 'I Am Not Convinced' Being Transgender Exists
Fox News' trusty doctor, Keith Ablow, can always be counted on for sound medical advice. Now he's saying that the whole idea of being transgender might be a myth. Ablow wrote a column on Fox News' website Tuesday in which he claimed that giving children the freedom to make gender decisions is "destructive" and "toxic." "I don't see anything but toxicity from the notion of a person with female anatomy feeling free to use the urinal in the boys' rest room while a boy stands next to her and uses one, too," Ablow wrote.
Ablow was responding to the California bill that allows transgender youth to use whatever bathroom and join whichever sports team they feel matches their gender identity. But what's more is that Ablow said that he believes the idea of being transgender may not actually exist, a claim that he admits has made him the subject of recent "death threats."
"I don't believe we have definitive data (although many psychiatrists with very impressive credentials, who seem to mean well, assert that we do) that any male or female soul has ever in the history of the world been born into the wrong anatomic gender. Let me put that more clearly: 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."
Ablow's opinions come as no surprise after another column he wrote for Fox News in 2011 warned readers against watching transgender Chaz Bono on "Dancing With The Stars" as it could cause children to question their gender as well.

I ask you... what is this garbage? and Why do I feel like finding this person and chopping their balls off?
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suzifrommd

I'm not convinced being Keith Ablow really exists. I think it's a condition brought on by low IQ and the grandiose notion that one can construct one's own reality.
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lilacwoman

well he was taught by Paul McHugh the rabid Catholic transsexual hater - I'd be inclined to look under his bed to see what makes him tick! - so it is only to be expected he would dismiss the idea of transsexuality despite the evidence of what his eyes can clearly see.
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Ms Grace

Quote from: SuzyDoodle on January 17, 2014, 04:42:47 AM
Ablow's opinions come as no surprise after another column he wrote for Fox News in 2011 warned readers against watching transgender Chaz Bono on "Dancing With The Stars" as it could cause children to question their gender as well.

That's pretty funny... it's usually cis people that make me question my gender.
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Hydra

Seems like... atheism turned against "atheists" (?)

Not bad Fox. Not bad...
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katiej

I live in California, and in a pretty conservative area.  And this new law that allows transgender kids to use their preferred restroom has made people lose their minds.  Their ignorance and fear actually causes them to think that it means any kid can do whatever he wants.  And they envision some perverted high school boy randomly walking into the girls locker room cause he can.  But that's just not what the law says.

And when I tell them that Los Angeles county has had the same law for over a decade now without one single incident, they really have nothing to say.  I've actually been able to change people's minds about it when I -- in as nice a way as possible -- show them how incredibly dumb they're being.

This Ablow character is basically saying that no science will ever be enough to convince him. 
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JoanneB

After attending a couple of Maryland Senate hearings on TG rights bills what he stated is pretty typical (and mild) compared to the majority of religious zealot bathroom nutz. They love stating in "Undeniable" scientific proofs that if you have an outie your a boy and an innie you're a girl. They also conveniently ignore all the other not so perfectly clean cut well documented scientific examples of where and how this does not apply. They also love to create absurd situations which do not represent the overwhelming majority of TGs and especially transsexuals.

Small minded bigots are exactly that. Sadly there is little that can be done to educate them. Not even having a transgender child.

BTW- A politically active member of my TG group has pretty much come to the conclusion that a lot of these closed minded bigots write and post things just to get a few of us totally worked up in print to either continue to torment us (Yes to torment. Good Christians that they are) or to use as ammo for fundraising or political reasons.
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calico

Quote from: SuzyDoodle link=topic=157906.msg1338320#msg1338320


I ask you... what is this garbage? and Why do I feel like finding this person and chopping their balls off?

Its exactly that ....garbage,   and if his were actually big enough I wouldn't wish to chop them off but rather feed then into a meat grinder while still attached.
Its fairly typical you have this dr that really doesn't have anything famous for or to be proud of saying all these notable people who have years of research are completely wrong and actually idiots. ... ::)   ok yea right. .. That's a true idiot right there for ya
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Kade1985

It's Fox "News". Anything that comes out of their mouths (I actually find myself on their side only when Westboro Baptist Church is involved, but everyone hates those guys), is either a flat out lie, pure ignorance, or comedy gold. I don't take anything they say very seriously and wish they would just stop. >> Like they just need to stop. The only people corrupting minds of either youth or adults is Fox News.
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Shantel

Just about anything you see and hear on any of the TV news media outlets these days is loaded with hype and insipid drivel. They play to their viewing audience assuming that everyone needs to be informed on how to think, it's really rather insulting and unless one is able to decipher the real intent of the broadcast they are being mind f-cked! For instance on NBC evening news each night we have Dr. Nancy S. coming up with some new scary thing that will cause cancer like aspirin. Most of these TV medical experts are simply trying to create their own TV credibility as a medical authority when in reality they are such mediocre doctors that they have found an easier way to make a buck than having to actually have a medical practice of their own. Besides, from what I can see their malpractice insurance would no doubt astronomical based on what comes out of their mouths as professional opinion.
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Aina

I wouldn't listen to anything from Fox News, they just open there mouth and say what ever comes to there minds.

They are some of the most idiotic people, I have ever seen. The soul purpose imo for Fox news is to confuse people, and attract other idiotic people to the "conservative cause".

In all honesty I think they should not be allowed to be called a news company. It is pretty bad....the things that they say with little or no proof,facts or intelligence.

/rant off.
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gennee

First of all, FOX news gets it wrong ALL the time. Second, people like KeithAblow will not change their beliefs even if proven wrong because their egos won't allow it. That's why so many of our institutions are in a state of flux. So many people are married to their belief systems that they cannot conceive that there's another point of view different from theirs.
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