Chaz Bono on Dancing with the Stars: should kids be banned from watching?
09/20/2011 4:58 PM
By Deborah Kotz, Globe Staff

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Ablow, who declined to be interviewed, wrote in his column that children who might be watching will be in the process of establishing a sense of self which includes a sexual/gender identity and that the last thing they need is to watch a "captive crowd in a studio audience applaud on cue for someone whose search for an identity culminated in the removal of her breasts, the injection of steroids."

Just like kids who light up a cigarette after watching their favorite actors smoke in movies, so too might they be influenced to switch genders after seeing it turn mainstream, Ablow contended.

That logic sort of makes sense except I'm not sure that many children would go through the rigors of switching their identity as casually as they would puff on a cigarette or down a beer.