For the second time this week, I really have to hand it to Megyn Kelly.  Bravo.

I love hearing & seeing Megyn, but this story is over-played, over-hyped and just lame. Very few people (fringe) agree with Ablow. It’s hardly worth the ink already wasted on it.

Dangerous? I don’t know many people who care what TV “Doctors” have to say. Irresponsible? Yes

Keith was way over the line on this one. Will watching the show make someone want to look like Nancy Grace?
 
I don’t think so.

From what I have seen, we need to be more afraid of apple juice!!!!

I know Megyn Kelly was on Bill O’Reilly’s show, but I’m wondering if anyone mentioned to Megyn Kelly that people watch her show for other reasons than to hear what she has to say!! Most probably just watch with the volume lowered!!

the piece drips with the pronoun bigotry…..bullshit….it was his opinion, that every avenue be explored before such a procedure, and megan has her opinion also which is good….just because someone does not believe as you do tommy does not make them a bigot

‘Yawn’

O’Reilly almost nailed it when he said, “well you don’t know they’re…” but he didn’t finish that statement.  The way it works is this.  In the media and entertainment world where Cher and Chaz live, it’s a unique thing.

In the world everywhere else, people will look at Chaz and believe that transgendered is a form of obesity, a medical condition afflicting a lot of American kids. 

Ablow is right. 

Not so. She is a delight. It doesn’t matter if she is always right, she gets the issues vetted. And she doesn’t mind being politically incorrect sometimes. She is smart.

It was important for Fox to make sure they got out the word that the bigot and hater Ablow was really a “nice guy”.

All their racists, bigots and bomb-throwers are nice people!!

No, Megan is the one who is irresponsible and dangerous for mouthing off about something she should keep her mouth shut about.  Chee … since when does a transgender deserve defense like this!

But LIBERAL haters like you  just make everybody’s day.  Thanks so much for being the poster boy for being a total jerk.,

They are a human being…same rights and feelings that you have Jo. Shut your big “hater” mouth.

Albow, like you is an asshole.

I know, right? It’s like she considers transgenders to be human beings. What fool!

Something she should keep her mouth shut about?

Quite the attitude, Jo.

Why do libs have such a hangup with attractive and intelligent women?

Ohhh thats right, most attractive and intelligent women happen to be Conservative…my bad!!

Kelly gets some phony award from one of these pressure groups and all of a sudden she is trying to turn this mental disorder into some civil rights issue. Every minority in this country should be furious that this sexual fetish has been turned into some persecuted minority class. If you buy into this crap you are a national disgrace.

Notice the screen shot that Bill used in the background? That one is excellent. Brains, motherhood, awesome beauty, a suggestive first name, she is the best female on Fox..

I’m not sure which side of this debate I agree with. The only thing I know for sure is it did not take a TV show for me to realize at an early age (teens) that I was a Lesbian trapped in a man’s body.

Even if her choice of dresses is often reflective of watching lots of reruns of Little House on the Prairie.

No, late. That joke is older than Johnny Carson.

What I like about this is there does not appear to be a “what is the party line on this?- OK, lets work backward to justify that” approach that happens all too frequently (Hannity, the entire MSNBC crew, etc.)  Megan is considering this with her brains and her heart and weighing in with her passionate opinion …. it makes for much more productive discourse, and is also much more interesting to watch.  

Ablow is right in that children may recognize that to be trasgendered is not a big deal, and perhaps something one might reasonably consider–if so inclined.

The notion that many children without such an inclination would consider such an option confirms that, yes, you are–along with Albow–an asshole. Bobby is absolutely correct in his diagnoses.

Undoubtedly you contracted this ‘assholiness’ from viewing too much Albow.

‘Chaz’ Bono has to take male hormones for the rest of his/her life.  If she really did become a he, then taking hormones wouldn’t be necessary.   For many complicated and heart-rending reasons, she didn’t feel comfortable in her feminine body and so attempted to become a man.   She surgically became a man; she psychologically may have transformed into a man; she and others may believe that she is now a man but until she dies, her DNA will display that she is a woman.

this is for ‘timzank.’

woops!

I think this may have hit too close to home for Billo.  As Megyn says about Ablow, His words may lead someone to hurt a transgender person.  Dr. Tiller comes to mind, doesn’t he Bill?  Remember your baby killer attacks?  

She’s way hotter when I disagree with her, which is most of the time. Not this one though.

Wait a minute, a FOX broadcaster stands up for a transgender and now she is told to shut up by a liberal? What happened to celebrating diversity? And accusing Fox of being haters? I haven’t heard of Chaz renouncing her/his citizenship, or MEGYN either, so they both deserve to be treated with respect. Why do they deserve to be attacked by you?

MEGYN HAIR IS UGLY!

There is NO such thing as transgendered peoples

They are what they were born, that does not change if some surgeon mutiates there body

Yes, they are mentally ill and NO children should not be exposed to them as normal

Kelly make a reference to the 23 year old gay man dressed like a woman that got beat in McDonalds by a 14 year old girl, after the adult gay man came on to the 14 year old bf , who was also a minor.

This is where we are now, pretending that gay men can come onto children and the children are supposed to accept it.

What planet are you living on? 
Most people believe “transgendered” is what i is, a mental illness. And most people do not hate nor target the mentally illl with violence. And most people do not want their children to accept the mentally ill as normal.

Should we lock them all up in prison then?  I hope you realize that what you and Dr. Ablow are advocating are clear forms of discrimination.

Why is it OK to surgically change sexes, but if you go to Marcus Bachmann, and ask him to help you leave the homosexual lifestyle, he ,and his wife are roundly condemned ?

Do a little reading about that and you’ll understand.

Boy , Fox is sure getting some mileage from this “controversy”  Do you think Megyn and Keith got a bonus for  this conflict.

bobby, why do you hate freedom?

why are you a poosey?

sean is a poosey with no balls. that’s why he has been reduced to lying on the interwebz.

You’ve done zero research into this. what are you, 500 years old?

So is your husband!

Please define ‘normal’ to me.

No children should be exposed to Sha Sene and her hatred.

You are a intolerant bigot, Sha. I wonder if you are a bigot by nature or nurture. I guess it’s just the way you were born.

Sha, If you are going to comment on a news story (The Baltimore hate crime you refer to) at least get your facts straight. Sha Sene is a liar.

BTW, the primary attacker was just sentenced to 5 years in jail. The juvenile accomplice is doing serious time for the hate crime in juvenile detention.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20106143-504083.html

The very fact you have to ask shows you need to learn some fundamental basics.

This is not good publicity for Keith. The guy is a jerk. I could be wrong, but I doubt he will be given a bonus. This is not the first time he has said objectionable things.

Personally, I believe Megyn is sincere. I commend her for speaking out. Thank you Megyn Kelley.

She is 40 years old. My age. Wow! I thought she was much younger. Nature Freak is impressed by her hawtness, even if he agrees with her.

So by your logic, half the population in America +(depending on the poll) is a national disgrace.

Sean better find another country. You may enjoy Uganda. They like to kill GLBT people in Uganda. There are even laws being passed in Uganada to promote the killing.

Sean, is coming on Mediaite part of your sexual fetish?
What are you wearing, Sean? What are you doing? Have a web cam?

Tolerance and love is winning over bigotry and hate here in the United States regarding  this issue. I guess Sean will have to deal with it.

Kelley thinks she is the bell of the ball, new child and plenty of make-up but that doesn’t get it.  She belongs on MSNBC and the soon the better.

“Since when does a transgender deserve defense like this”?

Perhaps Megyn dislikes bigotry and hatred towards transsexuals being pushed by Ablow.

Perhaps Megyn is appalled at Ablow for encouraging violence towards transsexuals.

I guess Jo will have to stop watching Fox News. Jo, you are the one mouthing off about something you know little about.

The best evidence that Kelly seeks is the disclaimer seen on car commericals that says, “Professional stunt driver.  Don’t try this at home.”  The influence of television on young (and not so young) minds is accepted without debate. 

That’s why groups tally in detail the scenes of cigarette smoking and violence.  Remember in the 1990s when the distributors of the cartoon “Beavis and Butthead” agreed to no longer show them playing with fire, even though those were hilariously funny skits.  When I was a kid, they wouldn’t allow Pillsbury to show a cat that had been dyed with the company logo because children might want to dye their own cats.  The list of example goes on and on and on.  Even shows like Miami Vice where the main characters were drug law enforcers had the effect of popularizing cocaine culture, because the bad guys, except for their legal woes, had everything young people wanted.

Kelly’s idea that there’s no evidence that watching a transgendered person on television will have no effect just is lacking in common sense and decades of examples to the contrary.

I would like to know what the difference is between a transgendered male and a lesbian female, besides a major surgical procedure. 

When it comes to the fallacy of transgenderism, Megyn Kelly is clearly a shit-for-brains. Dr. Keith Ablow accurately states the fact that teaching your children that a woman is a man is toxic and confusing, and she can’t come back with anything other than calling him names.

Maybe whiles he was busy getting her law degree, she couldn’t done herself some good on this topic and take a friggin’ biology class.

Perversion is perversion. Psychosis is psychosis. We live in a very odd time in history, when perversion and psychosis are insisted upon as cultural norms, for the sole reason that regarding them otherwise might offend the psychotic and perverse. This is precisely like saying we should allow a small number of people with sledge
hammers to pound on our house until it falls apart, for fear of offending them by telling them that such behavior is unacceptable. And furthermore, that we should permit and encourage them to enlist as many people as they are able to enlist in the task of pounding on our house, because not to do so would be “unfair.”
 
Moreover, we should not build a preventive barrier around our house, because that would be “stopping perfectly good and nice people, who are looked down on by many, from doing what gives them satisfaction and makes them feel affirmed.” Neither may we speak out against the enterprise of sledge-hammering peoples’ houses,
because that might “incite violence” against the hammerers.
 
Such is the logic of the Left. 
 
 

Your avatar looks like a pervert.

Your hate is misdirected.

Tony, teaching children hate, bigotry and intolerance like you apparently do is toxic and confusing to your children. It is actually very bad for them.

Hopefully when your kids get older, they will be exposed to smarter and less bigoted people, and realize their Dad has his own “issues”.

The times they are a changing. Bigots like you are being exposed for what they are. It must be sad living in a world that is rejecting your hateful values.

This is the 21 century. Get use to it. I guess you can always move to Uganda or Saudi Arabia.
What a silly and ridicious anaylogy on your part. The reason I would ever want a “pretective barrior” around my house is because of crazed trogylites such as yourself.

I bet you recoil when you see a woman wearing pants or jeans. Or have their head uncovered.

Ablow is synonymous with ‘assholiness’.

LOL!

WHAT?

Is Megyn suggesting that Transgendered people wear signs around their necks proclaiming themselves as transgendered?

Frankly, had it not been because of Cher, Chaz and THE MEDIA, I wouldn’t know Chaz OR “his” gender from the next guy.

I don’t give a RAT’S REAR END about Chaz or ANY OTHER transgendered person.

THEY are welcome EVERYWHERE.

If I meet one (and I might, without knowing it), if we “get along”, we’ll be friends, JUST LIKE anyone else with whom I get along.  If not, well, have a nice day, and enjoy your life!

BUT once you’ve “gone public” with your decision to do, well, whatever – don’t expect people to stand-up and CHEER your decision, or proclaim you a “hero”!

“Coming out of the closet” was YOUR decision, NOT MINE.

Statistically speaking, Chaz is an ODDITY, and has EVERY RIGHT to be treated as such!

The economy is in shambles….Millions are out of work…..Union thugs are taking to the streets….and Mediate gives us an article about a surgically butchered man/woman who wants to dance with Rachael Maddow on DWTS.
WTF???
Liberals are nutcases. 

Some of us are intelligent enough to follow and discuss more than one issue at a time.

It is possible.

Sorry you can not multitask.

You say this because you think YOU are normal?  What if we all said YOU weren’t normal, how would you feel?  See, we kind of think YOU are far off the mark when you write things like “most people do not want their children to accept the mentally ill as normal.”  That’s pretty weird, Sha Sene.  What if we said, “Most people do not want their children to accept Sha Sene as normal”?  Yikes, pretty icky, isn’t it.

Freako calls this abomination an “issue”

I rest my case.
 

Hate to break it to ya Megan but, it’s not what Dr. Ablow’s remarks that make us wince when we see a trans- gender person in public. It’s the obvious perversion that takes startles us.

You may be right. Someone mentioned that motherhood seems to have softened Megyn somewhat.
There are several regular contributors to Fox that I consider opinion for hire talking heads. They know how to slant their opinion to for the desired impression and create controversy and conflict Keith falls into that catagory. I was joking about the bonus but I do believe they understand that putting things out there in a little more outrageous fashion keeps them coming back. It’s a media game rather than honest analysis.

1. You know nothing of anyone’s God
2. Are you always in the habit of answering your own posts?
3. You are nothing more than a loud-mouthed chicken-sh*t…hiding behind a keyboard….insulting others….masturbating to pictures of Hillary Clinton  and laughing at your own jokes.

caconservative,

Dr. Ablow’s perversion startles me too. Dr. Ablow is a sick man.

I am glad you agree with me,caconservative.

I can masturbate to photos of Hillary Clinton if I want to!

I do not hide behind a keyboard. I have and am involved in activism off the computer as well. I hide nothing.

At least I can sleep well at night. I doubt many of the homophobic haters here do. Many of the GLBT bashers here have their own identity issues if you know what I mean.

It must be hell being scared of GLBT people.

You may be “AliveSillKicking, but your lack of brain waves make you seem dead.

I guess it depends upon your definition of “life”. Coma thing?

The world is changing. Young people feel differently. You are an anachronism in your own time. A bigoted fossil. You belong in a museum.

So everyone in America watching Chaz on TV will suddenly have the desire to become a transsexual?

The process is way way different than one day deciding to get a tattoo or snort some blow at a party. It takes years. Read the accounts of people who have fully went the M to F or F to M route. It is a serious decision. It is not taken frivolously. It is not a trend or a habit. It is done with self knowledge. It is done knowing you will have to face hate and bigotry. Just look at the bigotry and vitriol against GLBT people on this website.

People who go this route are serious with their intent. Very serious. They know.

Hey, Merry….There ARE some things in this world that aren’t normal, whether you think so or not….I can imagine what kind of mixed up people your kids are going to grow up to be thinking that EVERYTHING is normal!!!  Dumbbell…..

Bobby, I think you and Tim Tebow are assholes….We can call names as good as you people on the left….

You sound like the hater to me, Bobby!  And you also sound like a commy liberal…”Tolerance is the last virtue of a sinful society.”

At the age of 40 you should know better, and you are a freak (and ugly, too)…..

Are you condoning pedophilia, Freak?

Well, at least you agree with a conservative on SOMETHING, Freak!!!

I hope you’re not a dad, Freak, because even though you are 40 you have the wisdom of a five year old….Have you come out yet?

Are you sure he is looking at pictures of Hillary when he does that?  Are you sure it’s not Obama or, maybe, Anthony Weiner….Looking at his picture no self respecting woman would have him….

I give your comment a five-star rating!

Freak, from your picture I find you to be an abomination….

*LOL* Yes, in your illogical mind I guess biological facts are “bigotry”.

But in the REAL WORLD where I live — you should visit it sometime — your DNA is your DNA and you’re stuck with it. Just like putting lipstick on a pig doesn’t change the fact that it’s a pig, mutilating your vagina and carving the remains into a nonfunctional flap of skin that kinda resembles a little penis doesn’t make you a man.

Nick Cave may be an abomination but he is one hell of a good singer, songwriter philosopher and poet. I wish I was as much of an abomination as Cave is. Perhaps in my next life.

Are you so dense and naive that you don’t realize most avatars here are not self photos?

Nick Cave has dated many models in his past. Nick is a good looking guy. Hate mustaches?

Personally I have a goatee. Shaved head as well.

Does it matter? Would it matter if I was bi? Why do you care?

So being a 40 year old adult means being a bigoted homophobic jackass? I rather be 5 years old.

I hope you are not a mom. Your kids will end up in therapy. Hopefully they are around other role models.

There are different kinds of Conservatism. There is such a thing as nuance. Megyn is a leftist compared to many on the radical right who post here at Mediaite. There is a certain type of social Conservatism I find vile. I can deal with the center right. Batguano Crazy Conservatives on the other hand…

There needs to be more labels than Liberal and Conservative.

It’s a media game. You are correct.

I suppose we are playing by posting here at Mediaite!

Keith does raise their ratings. Any publicity is sometimes good publicity. I totally get your point. Fox wants controversy and us talking about it. I do wonder if it could backfire. Fox must realize tolerance towards GLBT people is the current trend. Perhaps they are acknowledging a debate in the Conservative ranks.

I need to make the distinction more between 1)regular Conservatives and center right people versus 2)Batguano crazy Conservatives including hardcore social conservatives.

Hopefully Megyn is in the first category. All of my Conservative friends are of the first category. Unfortunately, many who post here are of the second.

Read the stories on this case.

The woman attacked and assaulted in the Baltimore hate crime never hit on the juvenile. Never came on to the 14 year old. Sha is full of sh!t.This is a non issue. Never happened.

Read up on the court case.

I am a freak. Proud of it. And again, that is not me. That is Nick Cave. A handsome man I must add.
I should know better? Yet calling GLBT people abominations and pedophiles is an adult way to act?
That is acceptable and me calling people on it is childish? I should know better? So hate is good?

Will you agree with me that automatically calling a transsexual person a pedophile, a pervert or an abomination is childish and dead wrong? And bigoted in the worse way? Should’nt they know better?

Janet, sorry for standing up for GLBT people. I guess I need to grow up and learn to hate GLBT people for being who they are. You can be my teacher..

I am an asshole. Only an asshole would post on a site like this, right?

“…and the first assholes will be last and the last assholes will be first.”

-Deuteronomy 14:24-26

God bless!

These questions are so fascinating!

No such thing as transgendered? Are words the same as things? As ‘real’ life?

Do you know that about 1% of the population is born with what is termed ambiguous genitalia? These are people who have genital structures that don’t conform to the conventional ‘male’ and ‘female’ structures. In the past, doctors would basically eyeball a baby’s geintals and try to surgically ‘repair’ the structure. Their goal was to make it look like either a penis or vagina. The child was then raised according to the doctor’s determination–irrespective of the child’s internal organs. 

Think about that: a doctor would determine the child’s sex based on what it looked like!

I challenge you to investigate this phenomenon. Think Caster Semanya. This is a very complicated question that can’t be solved with glib and thoughtless assumptions.

‘Male’ and ‘female’ are simply words. The fact that people are born with ambiguous genitalia proves that words don’t conform to things all the time. Furthermore, if I present to you an in individual with ambiguous genitalia, could you please tell me who that person should be allowed to marry?

“In the begining was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

-John 1:1

That was the begining. Today is a brand new day–and we now know the truth about words. 

God Bless!

FYI: ‘commy’ is generally spelled ‘commie.’

The Committee to Improve Republican Spelling (LLC)

There is no right or wrong answer when it comes to interpreting O’Reilly’s position on this.

Having said that and given O’Reilly’s rather conservative 1950s ideology when it comes to minorities, women and gays I have to think he basically agrees with Ablow and was trying to appear more open minded than he actually is.

There is no right or wrong answer when it comes to interpreting O’Reilly’s position on this.

Having said that and given O’Reilly’s rather conservative 1950s ideology when it comes to minorities, women and gays I have to think he basically agrees with Ablow and was trying to appear more open minded than he actually is.

The only thing I can say to the hatred and intolerence being published here is that if there ever had been a god they would be ashamed of you. Except that of course there is no such thing.

Transgendered people could call you all delusional. Believing in an almighty deity that you think will bring everlasting.life is, in addition to being nonsense, a psychosis you suffer from.

Go back to the dark ages, but leave your fantastically unlucky offspring here. At least they have a chance of growing normally without your influence warping their innocence.

Shame on you.

Personally, I believe in an eternal soul. And my “God” (I dislike the term “God”) is not the vengeful and hate soaked “God” being worshiped here by these crazy bigots.

Supporting GLBT rights or being GLBT does not mean you have to be an Atheist as well. Not that there is anything wrong in being an Atheist. GLBT people have all different religious beliefs, including those who have no religious beliefs.

Yes, these troglodyte posters belong in the dark ages. I pity them. And their offspring. They show themselves for what they are.

Personally, I believe in an eternal soul. And my “God” (I dislike the term “God”) is not the vengeful and hate soaked “God” being worshiped here by these crazy bigots.

Supporting GLBT rights or being GLBT does not mean you have to be an Atheist as well. Not that there is anything wrong in being an Atheist. GLBT people have all different religious beliefs, including those who have no religious beliefs.

Yes, these troglodyte posters belong in the dark ages. I pity them. And their offspring. They show themselves for what they are.

My fear is that you vote, Janet, or have ever served on a jury.

DNA???

Most of you folks don’t even believe in DNA, do you?

“Ain’t that Darwin garbage, momma? it ain’t written nowhere in the Good book, is it?”

I love all of these people talking about ‘biological facts’ who discount science at every turn. They believe in that old man in outer space, though…go figure!

People who don’t believe in science should lose their scicence-based health care. Go talk to Moses, or whoever to get your colon fixed!!!

And I love — well, am amused by — people like you who create their own arguments with imaginary opponents and can’t even manage to win them.

You just had an imaginary argument with a caricature you created and you were incapable of refuting that gender is determined by genetics! *LOL* How much of a dumbass are you?

One of four little chromosomes controls the gender we are at damn-near conception… even for dudes, we’re biologically 75% female… to think that there wouldn’t be any crossovers, overlaps, or something different than “this is a man” and “this is woman” is kidding themselves. We’re humans, and we’re complicated.

Over the years I’ve known and worked with a number of people that are transgendered… at least for the ones I’ve been friends with, they’re SEVERELY NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS. Jus’ sayin.

Thank Goodness someone is speaking out against the assault on our children.  There seems to be nothing that is sacred or off limits!  Megyn may change her mind as her children become a little older and are assaulted from every direction with sexual messages of every description.  It is not the job of the media to convince children that they should try out every possible scenario of gay, straight, transgendered, or whatever is the next in vogue sexual thing by the time they reach puberty. . . can it be so harmful for them to spend a little time being innocent children.  

It’s not about the children.  It’s about your personal discomfort.  You’re a liar.

Evil people like you are essentially demanding that we (trans) people all be killed. Every time you people open your mouth, you castigate a trans person for living his or her life, for not hiding under a rock, for trying to have family and friends and socialization, for not killing themselves. You don’t allow us anything at all, so I’d call you a sick murderer.

We’re not the ones demanding – on an irrational, religious basis – that a particular innocent man never show his face in public because his existence threatens children.  Any more bullshit conservative false equivalencies?

He hates it because he’s conservative.  It’s a strongly authoritarian and collectivist movement.

You lie Sha Sene! The transgender (not gay) was beaten brutally by an 18 year old and 14 year old for simply using the women’s restroom. You can’t justify your bigotry so you come up with lies like this? You are pathetic. BTW, not being able to show empathy certain seems abnormal to me. 

Gah!!!!!!!! My eyes!!!! From you putting the Nancy Grace in skin tight dancewear image back in my front of them!! (yes I’ve seen it and NO do NOT google it!)

the only thing that makes me comfortable laughing at that woman is the fact she is evil and dead inside as well as out. I’m a nice person otherwise :)

No, actually the complaints with the piece do not stem from simple difference of opinion but the facts that 1. Ablow is NOT an expert in the area and should not have used his credentials on such a piece in which he had little knowledge and 2. His views were simply straight from mind to keyboard, with no scientific backup. In fact, scientific research in the area easily refutes his given views and therefore it was extremely unprofessional and unethical to post such an unscientific and ill informed post. I know, I work in psych. You CANT just write down any idea that pops into your mind as just ‘feels right’ and give that advice to people, giving them the impression they are hearing scientifically backed arguments from an expert.

Given that the research shows he was completely wrong, what he did is highly unethical and dangerous and he should be formally reprimanded IMHO. Fired from Fox and at least receive a warning from the APA.

Unlike Dr. Phil, Dr. Ablow is a practicing psychiatrist. He is not a “tv doctor.” As far as his opinion of celebrating a very troubled individual, he is 100% correct.

How very NYC liberal of Mzzz Kelly.

Ahhh, Dr. Ablow “is a jerk” in your – what would you call it – “professional” opinion? Observation? Assessment? Based on what criteria? The fact that he (and millions of others) have an opinion different from yours?
Thank God, Dr. Ablow has the courage to speak of these troubled people honestly and openly. But, then, you, Nature Freak, should be very familiar with freaks of nature.

Every avenue already is explored. One typically has to go through a minimum of three months of therapy before getting hormones and then must get a letter of recommendation. before a doctor will prescribe them.

In order to get sexual reassignment surgery a person typically must live full time as their perceived gender for a minimum of a year and additionally have not one but two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from a master’s level or higher psyche.

Mr. Ablow’s comments were horribly uninformed in terms of the subject at hand and he should refrain from pretending he’s an expert on the matter. It’s been proven time and time again that therapy alone doesn’t work, nor does trying to suppress it. All that does is lead to depression and in particularly sad cases suicide.

As for his saying that there’s a high mortality rate and implying that people regret the surgery, sure a few have… the overwhelming majority feel whole for the first time in their lives and happy.

In short for all I know he might be a great doctor in terms of more mainstream issues, he’s an absolute hack when it comes to this one though.

No he’s not.

Ablow is an absolute fool who has proven to no absolutely nothing about the topic at hand.

When does a transgender deserve defense like this?

Oh gee.. maybe because we are people first and foremost, wholly deserving of respect and common decency shown our way.

Maybe because we are tax paying citizens of this Country and deserving of equal protection under the law, as promised by none other than The Constitution.

Maybe because we are the most ostracized of an already ostracized community amongst The LGBT population.

Maybe just maybe because people need to learn to be a little more compassionate and understanding about what is a very real and recognized medical condition.

Need I go on Jo?

Not everyone believe in your ridiculous concept of sin.

No the only national disgrace is people like you, who refuse to educate yourself about the topic and buy into your own hatred and intolerance.

Gender isn’t a black and white issue, the mere fact that there are people born inter sexed proves as much beyond a shadow of any reasonable doubt.

People, especially youth wouldn’t kill themselves over a sexual fetish as you put it, yet transgender youth kill themselves at an even higher rate than the maligned and bullied themselves gay and lesbian population.

Get a clue, it only makes you look stupid spouting off about a topic you lack knowledge in.

You are an idiot and it’s attitudes like yours that leads to transgender youth feeling there’s no other way out than suicide. There’s blood on your hands and quite a bit of it at that.

Just an FYI:

By saying there’s no such thing as transgendered people, you sound just as ignorant and out of touch with reality as that nut job who recently said there was no proof that LGBT people existed.

Congratulations!

Calling people freaks and saying they are ugly?!?

How old are you 12?

 He’s wrong, but he also a hypocrite. A few years ago when he had a show he “glorified” transgendered people, put them on TV and had an audience clap for them. He clearly just wanted to make a controversy for ratings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZQ3VhgZQH8&feature=related