NOTE: I have emailed, faxed and mailed this letter to Beverly Sheehan, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. I encourage you to contact her as well and urge her organization to follow in the footsteps of the APA and denounce the misinformation Ablow has purposefully propagated to the national and international population while […]
Note: Updated 10/18/2011: Ablow is at it YET AGAIN and this time he is targeting an 11 YEAR OLD CHILD! In his newest professional anti-trans assertions, note how Ablow attempts to deflect being held accountable by claiming that his professional actions do not meet the dictionary definition of bullying. Since professional bullying is precisely one of the things I […]
Houston – On September 2, Dr. Keith Ablow, the Fox News psychologist, advised parents not to allow their children to see a transgender person on television because he feels that doing so might turn children into transsexuals. The statement was made in response to an announcement that Chaz Bono, a transgender man, would appear on […]
I find the response that I’ve had to this is really interesting. After folks like pop-psychologist (trained in criminal psychology and practices a Chris Angel-like therapy called “Street Therapy”) Dr. Keith Ablow was given an extraordinary platform via Fox News and tell parents that their children could catch transsexualism from watching Chaz Bono on dancing […]
For the past few months, I’ve made available a number of never-before-considered documents that reviewed the true roots of the word “transgender”. The Myth The term “transgender” was coined by a heterosexual crossdresser chauvinist who hated transsexual people, Virginia Prince. The term was explicitly created to refer to other heterosexual crossdressers like Prince. Therefore, if […]
If you read my blog, you will already know that I’ve condemned the Brennan-Hungerford anti-trans UN letter in, what is for me, the strongest way possible. I noted how closely their claims match the well-worn unsupported anti-trans claims made by hate groups and right-wing zealots. I also had some things to say about transsexuals who […]
Here’s the text of the Clear Channel apology letter: We would like to apologize for remarks made on KTBZ that has caused distress to people in the Houston Transgender Community. We addressed the insensitivity of both content presented on air with our staff and the manner in which we responded to concerned members in the […]
I’ve received a few reports from local trans folk who state that during their morning show, 94.5 engaged in anti-trans rants. During these rants, station staff members purposefully used incorrect pronouns and repeatedly referred to trans people using the term, “it”. I sent an email to station managers this morning and am waiting for their […]
