{"id":506197,"date":"2021-02-21T10:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T10:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glaad.logalt.net\/tap\/keith-ablow-0\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T22:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T22:29:40","slug":"keith-ablow-0","status":"publish","type":"gap","link":"https:\/\/glaad.org\/gap\/keith-ablow-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ablow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u2014Resigned from the American Psychiatric Association<\/a> because of its support of LGBTQ patients. <\/p>\n

\u2014Had medical license suspended<\/a> by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine due to multiple allegations of inappropriate sexual activity with patients. The medical board wrote that \u201cDr. Ablow poses an immediate and serious threat to the public health, safety and welfare.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014Warned<\/a> that accepting trans people will destroy \u201cour worthiness as a people.\u201d He wrote: \u201cTurning our culture upside down to favor such individuals will truly, in my opinion, carry the risk of gradually making our entire nation hostage to irrational and firmly held beliefs. And if this culture caters to those beliefs, in the absence of a convincing groundswell of evidence that we ought to, then our foundation in the truth will be gone. Our worthiness as a people will be gone, too. Let me put this starkly: America may no longer be a country worth dying for in a war against extremists if we simultaneously, psychologically abuse millions upon millions of our children by insisting that they go to the bathroom beside adults who are physically of the opposite gender. Why would a country that does that have any moral standing, whatsoever? Why would our enemies not point to that reality and mock us for criticizing darkness in their own cultures? Really, what could be worse than the Department of Education commanding schools to let anatomic boys use the girls\u2019 locker rooms and restrooms? This country better get its head screwed on straight, or it is either going to be taken hostage by extremists of our own (like the transgender community, insisting on a takeover of our culture and good sense) or by extremists outside our country who can assert that we, not they, represent a scourge that could topple all truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of trans students using the proper bathroom: \u201cI know that other psychiatrists may well disagree, and I know that LGBTQ activists will criticize me, but I believe that allowing this \u2018choice\u2019 is profoundly destructive, psychologically, to all students, including the ones who identify themselves as transgender<\/p>\n

\u2014Said<\/a> of marriage equality: \u201cHere\u2019s the thing, the states need to get out of the marriage business. There\u2019s no way that the state of California can deny a marriage license to four spouses now. Eight spouses, or I would say three human spouses and the canine they absolutely love because if love is the foundation of marriage, they can love their dog, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed<\/a> Rachel Dolezal was an example of a trans \u201cslippery slope\u201d: \u201cI warned, right, I warned during the Caitlyn Jenner experience, during the Chaz Bono experience, that it would pave the way for people not only to assert the identity, the sexual identity or gender identity they felt they were, but also other kinds of identity, including racial identity. We\u2019ve rushed into this, Steve. We\u2019ve rushed into letting people say, \u2018I feel, therefore I am.\u2019 And we\u2019ve done it without a lot of psychological study and without clear facts to guide us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed out lesbian Hilary Rosen has \u201cchosen an alternative lifestyle\u201d and is \u201canti-gender\u201d because of it<\/a>: \u201cHilary Rosen vilifying women who choose to be stay-at-home wives and mothers is particularly ironic, given that she has chosen an alternative lifestyle raising twins with a female partner, meaning no father-figure is present in her home. To enjoy the benefits of her alternative lifestyle while denigrating the lifestyle of Ann Romney shows that her seemingly infinite bandwidth for alternative lifestyles flows in one direction: only alternative…. These \u2018anti-gender\u2019 women have it in for anyone who embraces her femininity, maternal instincts and capacity to nurture as their highest priority\u2014postponing or passing up other laudable opportunities to work at, say, a law firm or as a marketing executive. They despise the notion that some women may indeed be drawn\u2014instinctively and happily\u2014toward creating special and loving environments in which to raise their children, while spending all their available time sustaining and enriching those environments and those children. They despise the parts of themselves that may be drawn to such roles, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Instructed parents to keep their kids away from \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d when Chaz Bono appeared<\/a>: \u201cThe last thing vulnerable children and adolescents need, as they wrestle with the normal process of establishing their identities, is to watch a captive crowd in a studio audience applaud on cue for someone whose search for an identity culminated with the removal of her breasts, the injection of steroids and, perhaps one day soon, the fashioning of a make-shift phallus to replace her vagina…. Chaz Bono should not be applauded any more than someone who, tragically, believes that his species, rather than gender, is what is amiss and asks a plastic surgeon to build him a tail of flesh harvested from his abdomen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Compared being trans to a person pretending he or she is a farm animal<\/a>: \u201cHere\u2019s an analogy: If a person came to me tattooed as a zebra\u2014Zebraman… go on TV, but if you want me to agree with you that you\u2019re a zebra, well now you\u2019re invading my reality… It\u2019s dancing with a woman as a man. I\u2019m not going to have my kids watch a show in which people pretend to be farm animals.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Said the Benetton clothing company\u2019s pro-acceptance ad campaign declared \u201cpsychological warfare\u201d on religion, culture, and heterosexuals<\/a>: \u201cMake no mistake, this series of images published and posted along streets by Benetton is a declaration of psychological warfare on religious tradition and cultural mores and one that elevates narcissism and sexual gratification above intelligence and leadership. It is a direct message to the young people targeted by Benetton marketeers that theirs should be a generation defined by indulging in erotic pleasure above all else, and without regard to one\u2019s religious vows, or moral standards, or respect for one\u2019s office and public face, or one\u2019s word…. If you are heterosexual, if you are a leader who believes your position demands decorum, if you are a person of substance who believes you should be valued for your mind, not just your sexuality, if you think that countries and religion deserve respect, not ridicule, you were attacked today by Benetton. You felt it. And you shouldn\u2019t be talked out of your outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Responding to an ad<\/a> in which a mother playfully painted her child\u2019s nails wrote: \u201cThis is a dramatic example of the way that our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity\u2014homogenizing males and females when the outcome of such \u2018psychological sterilization\u2019 [my word choice] is not known…. encouraging the choosing of gender identity, rather than suggesting our children become comfortable with the ones that they got at birth, can throw our species into real psychological turmoil\u2014not to mention crowding operating rooms with procedures to grotesquely amputate body parts? Why not make race the next frontier? What would be so wrong with people deciding to tattoo themselves dark brown and claim African-American heritage? Why not bleach the skin of others so they can playact as Caucasians?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed lesbian parents need to be studied to see if they \u201cturned\u201d their child transgender<\/a>: \u201cWe have two women raising a child. He\u2019s adopted. And he\u2019s come to believe that he too is female. That argues for a complete psychological evaluation, not just of the boy, but of his parents as well to see whether psychological forces are at play here to make him say such things.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014In rant against transgender protections, suggested transgender students pose a threat to cisgender kids<\/a>: \u201cThe mere fact that teachers and administrators will have to explain to kindergarten and first-grade students that they might see girls in the boys\u2019 restroom, or boys in the girls\u2019 locker room, but that those really aren\u2019t kids of the gender they appear to be, could (and, here, data is sorely lacking) do harm to their own developing sense of self by suggesting to them that their gender is fluid, that it well might change for them, too, and that they should be on the lookout for signs that they want to switch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014In a 8\/11\/2011 column, conflated homosexuality and pedophilia as both being orientations<\/a>; in scientific fact, pedophilia is a disorder<\/a>, not an orientation. <\/p>\n

\u2014Claimed same-sex marriage is a step towards the wholly unrelated matter of polygamy<\/a>: \u201cWell, three people can love each other, so polygamy has to be close behind. How can you have same-sex marriage and not believe three people can fall in love, which they absolutely can?\u201d (timestamp 4:39\u20134:50)<\/p>\n

\u2014Gave credence<\/a> to a widely discredited study suggesting gay parents are not ideal: \u201dWhat we should avoid at all costs is silencing such research and such discussion because it is seen by some as politically incorrect. Where optimizing the well-being of children is involved, no stone should be left unturned.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":465860,"template":"","categories":[138754],"tags":[],"region":[138565],"hashtag":[138636,138635],"class_list":{"0":"post-506197","1":"gap","2":"type-gap","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"category-gaps","7":"region-national","8":"hashtag-anti-transgender","9":"hashtag-commentator"},"aioseo_notices":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t