If you want to see just how challenging the fight for true gender acceptance will be, look no further than this clip from everyone’s favorite news network propaganda machine — Fox News.
Below, you’ll see Elizabeth Hasselbeck speaking with discredited psychiatrist and Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow, tossing around fear-based trans prejudice like its shade at the Drag Race judges’ table. Except instead of being funny, it’s actually kind of scary and sad.
The topic is Planet Fitness and Yvette Cormier, the woman who complained about seeing a trans woman in the female locker room. After she returned to the gym day after day to warn the other guests of what had happened, Planet Fitness revoked her membership on the grounds that she was disturbing the other members.
Just to get things straight, Yvette was the one harassing gym members, not the trans woman who went in and out of the locker room twice in leggings and an oversized t-shirt.
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The way Hasselbitch and Ablower-than-low talk about it, though, Yvette deserves some sort of national medal — a point they highlight with a graphic in the lower right hand corner which says “Legal Insanity.” Except the actual lawyer involved in the conversation says the opposite.
And as is usually the case on Faux News, the privileged white man is the real victim here. Ablow says at one point, “We are being bullied into accepting things that are untrue to our core feelings.”
You poor dear, you.
Also, sorry Yvette — judging by those side-by-side pictures of you and Carlotta Sklodowska, the trans woman you couldn’t handle in your space, you could use some serious beauty tips from her.
Watch below, and do your best not to gag:
h/t MediaMatters
Xzamilio
I blogged about this idiot a year ago, not even realizing that he’d still be at it
http://shallowvoices.blogspot.com/2014/01/fox-news-doctor-keith-ablow-thinks.html
This is a dangerous man, plain and simple and transgender men and women can take comfort in the fact that Fox News’s demographic is part of a literal dying movement.
Giancarlo85
I wonder if this guy posts on here… some of the same rhetoric I see from certain folks on here matches up with this transphobic a-hole.
And Fox News invites someone who is unqualified? What a surprise. I’m in a state of shock. I never thought such a fine and respected news agency would do such a thing….. hahahahahah.
Not.
Low Country Boy
I think Mr. Tracer nailed it: “And as is usually the case on Faux News, the privileged white man is the real victim here.” That pretty much sums up their entire mantra.
Giancarlo85
@Jacob23: You are a disgrace with your transphobic comments. And jacob you are a sickening hypocrite. You never responded to those questions I posted. Hypocrite. And for a guy with crappy grammar you shouldn’t be criticizing anyone.
polarisfashion
The sole purpose of Faux News is to keep the vast majority of Americans misinformed. That is why we have people who vote against their own best interests. I wish they would get kicked off the air but that will never happen because they are owned by the billionaires.
Bob LaBlah
I despise Fox Noise with a passion, but I do agree with both sides, unfortunately, on this one. This is a mess and I commented earlier on the THREE bathroom situation which others seem to see as well. Imagine taking your son or daughter to the gym with you one day and walk into the locker room and see a guy with panties, tits, a brassiere AND painting his nails at the sink. Worse yet imagine one with no towel wrapped around because he/she/it didn’t see why she had to cover up in a locker room.
Where does it stop, I ask?
Xzamilio
@Bob LaBlah: So imagine taking your child into any gym locker room area where there are naked individuals. Imagine a world with no religion… imagine unicorns dancing in the streets at 12 noon everyday. You can imagine ANYTHING, and quite frankly, I’d love to see those locker rooms where transgender men and women are walking around, letting it all hang out. Utter nonsense. And the “for the children” argument is just lacking in merit. You’re not talking about children… you’re talking about your own hangups. All you would have to do is explain this to your kids, instead of pretending that the concept is so hard for them to fathom… it’s really not.
What bathroom would you be in to see a “Guy” painting his nails at the sink in a bra and panties? Because I want to go there lol
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilio: “What bathroom would you be in to see a “Guy” painting his nails at the sink in a bra and panties? Because I want to go there lol”
Be patient. Its coming. I think it was around 2000 or so when I laughed and said I would send flowers to the first two que……er, um, to the first two gay men who got married. Gay marriage has turned into a reality. And yes, I do NOT support it. I still feel unique identifying as gay and independent. All of the ceremony with the marriage certificate, church and preacher will always seem a crock of shit to me because I came from a different era. An era where it was thought (or so I did) that I do not need to infringe on anyone’s sacred right nor demand to be let in to what they believe and worshipped and saw as the right thing. If demand is that great and it amounts to nothing more than a belief anyway then why not just get a gay god and church and preach the same shit from a gay perspective? I mean really. Where does it end?
If you live in a large metro area this type of reality (three dressing rooms) or some variation of it is right around the corner and I have NO doubt it will be brought up again during the 2016 election. But rest assured, it is coming.
aliengod
@Bob LaBlah: I agree with you Bob. I’m no fan of FOX News, but I think Dr. Ablow is spot on regarding this story. Mental illness can cause a person to “sincerely believe” they are any number of things. We’ve stigmatized mental illness to the point that it’s offensive to point it out. The bottom line is that this guy had no business being in the women’s changing room.
Common sense is an unpopular thing these days.
How is this an LGB issue?
Queerty… If you’re truly “Free of an agenda. Except that gay one.”, how is this relevant?
Ridpathos
@Bob LaBlah: If you’re gay then I’m Jesus Christ.
Also if you don’t want your kid to see scarring images, don’t take him to a gym locker room period. An old naked guy is much more scarring than a guy in women’s clothing.
Saint Law
@Bob LaBlah: I’d be more worried about my son encountering you in the locker room tbh.
Saint Law
@aliengod: Mental illness has clearly made you sincerely believe you are someone worth listening to.
Giancarlo85
@aliengod: You seem to be stuck in some time warp like bob the cracker. May I remind you trans people have fought alongside gay people sing Stonewall?
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: *since.
And I will also add those siding with Fox news don’t know what they are talking about. And for those insisting in keeping trans people out of the movement, thank goodness you are not in charge of anything. Never have I met such such hypocritical bigoted assholes. Do you even read what you type? You demand equality for you but not trans people? Do you realize how much like the religious right you sound?
Xzamilio
@Bob LaBlah: “Be patient. It’s coming.”
If I had a dollar for every guy that said that to me… I’d have a $1.50 (the second guy climaxed mid-sentence)
Jokes aside, I don’t have much patience for fear mongering nonsense that STILL can easily be explained or brushed aside… I hardly see what some guy in a bra and panties has to do with you, unless he’s trying to rape you or your kids. And marriage is civil commitment, not a religious one. Even if they want that sky daddy seal o’ approval, they still gotta go down to the city hall or courthouse and get that certificate… you know, that piece of paper that deems your marriage legal… all the Jesus or Muhammad in the world won’t do that. So it’s not really relevant what you do or do not support.
You know what else is coming? Talking poodles… women wearing boxers and jockstraps… little boys driving semis… oh, it’s coming. Just wait.
Xzamilio
@aliengod: Common sense is subjective. Like for me, it’s common sense that if someone feels they were born the wrong gender, they should be allowed to transition to their desired gender, as it makes them happy, and it does not infringe on the rights of anyone else. 1973… do you know what that year is? The year we as gays and lesbians were no longer considered as having a mental illness by the APA. Oddly enough, religiosity hasn’t been classified as a mental illness… apparently, liking the same gender or gender identity conflicts means you’re messed up in the head, but talking to yourself (read: prayer) and killing people or denying their existence in the name of a man in the sky or campfire stories written by ignorant goat herders is perfectly sane.
Yeah, let’s continue fighting for equal rights as human beings because fundies and evangelists think some invisible sky wizard is talking to them through a damn book.
jason smeds
I wouldn’t want a woman in a men’s change room and I wouldn’t want a man in a woman’s change room. Just because your opinion of yourself changes according to your personality or mood swings, it doesn’t mean your gender changes.
Giancarlo85
@jason smeds: Not many care what you think. And the second part of your statement shows how little you know about trans people.
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: ” You seem to be stuck in some time warp like bob the cracker. May I remind you trans people have fought alongside gay people sing Stonewall?”
And may I remind YOU that blacks fought/died along side whites during the great……..during the Civil War? And look….on second thought never mind. You wouldn’t understand anyway.
Bob LaBlah
@Ridpathos: “If you’re gay then I’m Jesus Christ.”
Well, the most overrated charlatan of all time surfaces, finally. How’ve you been dear? Just to let you know, oh great KNOWER of everything (except this) it is us old geezers who have an extra fifty or so laying around when your kind can’t pay your membership dues or cell phone………..I won’t go on but rest assured, those of you who turn up your nose pay a HEFTY price when you come to me for “favors”. I refer all inquiries and verification requests to Saint Law. Ask him about the “stick”.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: I know blacks fought in the segregated union army. But what does that have to do with my statement? Stop being an idiot please. We all know you dream of the confederacy like most southern crackers.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: How would you pay anyone’s cell phone bill when you can’t even afford your own? The social security checks aren’t enough. And nobody wants you.
Bob LaBlah
@Xzamilio: “You know what else is coming? Talking poodles… women wearing boxers and jockstraps… little boys driving semis… oh, it’s coming. Just wait.”
Earth to what-ever-the-hell-your-name-is (I can’t pronounce it. Down here we just stayed with the basic, pronounceable ones as did the majority of the coloreds) I can see you don’t get out much. Even where I am there are young lesbians walking around with pants hanging down their ass and wearing BOXERS. I won’t go no further with the jockstraps because of the severity and I also have to save something for my response to Saint Law’s soon to hit the board response.
For Christmas I bought my four year old nephew a battery powered Escalade pickup truck. I didn’t see a semi but had there been one he would have gotten it. Thanks, by the way, because there just might be one available and I do have other nieces and nephews too. I really do mean thanks, even though I know your intentions were to be insulting.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: Is your brain this fried you can’t even address what someone says? You can’t seem to pronounce many things, cracker.
Bauhaus
@aliengod:
“Im no fan of FOX News” I’m just a mouthpiece for them.
Bob LaBlah
@Giancarlo85: You’ve been lied to. A dish can’t run away with a spoon.
DarkZephyr
@Xzamilio: “If I had a dollar for every guy that said that to me… I’d have a $1.50 (the second guy climaxed mid-sentence)”
Ha ha ha!!
@aliengod: I see that you continue to be an awful human being.
@Bob LaBlah: “An era where it was thought (or so I did) that I do not need to infringe on anyone’s sacred right nor demand to be let in to what they believe and worshipped and saw as the right thing.”
There is nothing “sacred” about bigotry no matter what their effing excuse is.
“(I can’t pronounce it. Down here we just stayed with the basic, pronounceable ones as did the majority of the coloreds)”
Also, just FYI, I think you are an appalling r*cist and aught to be ashamed of yourself. What the hell is your problem? You are gay but talk like a southern bigot.
Xzamilio
@Bob LaBlah: The coloreds? I can see you>/i> don’t get out much… like past 1969. My intentions were to be facetious; the insulting was just an added bonus, as well as your obvious deflection of anything I said before that jest. Even where you are… you mean in your holed-up rent-control studio apartment looking out of your window at passerbys? You gotta be careful… fashion has become very gender neutral, so you might be looking at lesbians or guys. In any case, you’re no longer worthy of addressing… and if you see any guys walking in panties, let me know how that affected your life in any way.
Giancarlo85
@Bob LaBlah: It’s funny a gay brown person like me can speak and type better English than you. 🙂
Guys, go through different articles and take a look at what Bob was saying to me. At one point he basically called me a wetback. I respect Mexicans fully as my brothers, but I am Colombian. I do not harbor resentment towards other Latinos.
JaredNorthcutt30
Ablow says at one point, “We are being bullied into accepting things that are untrue to our core feelings.”
Welcome to reality, “Dr.” Ablow. Every human is bullied into accepting things their core says is untrue. Maybe the good “doctor” should take his own advice and “man” up.
VampDC
Just because someone has a different opinion doesn’t make them an asshole. Im really getting fed up with Queerty’s biased “reporting”
Giancarlo85
@VampDC: When the opinion is asshole-like, chances are the person espousing the opinion is also one too.