From the June 16 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
Fox's Keith Ablow Uses Rachel Dolezal To Fearmonger About Transgender People
Ablow: A Child Being “Tattooed” Black “Is A Direct Parallel” With Transgender Children Receiving Treatment
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DOOCY: Keith, what do you make of this tangled story she has been telling?
ABLOW: Well, what I make of it is that she's asserting that her identity is that of a black woman despite all biological facts to the contrary, including the fact that she was born to Caucasian parents. And so here's what I make of it, I 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've rushed into this, Steve. We've rushed into letting people say, I feel therefore I am. And we've done it without a lot of psychological study and without clear facts to guide us. This is a threat, a massive threat to our children. Some of whom may claim, because they are troubled, I might say, others might say because they're actually black when they're biologically white or actually biologically black and say they're white, either way. I would say that that would be confusion. Others will say, no, they know who they are. They are in the wrong bodies. And they're going to end up in big trouble with the wrong doctors.
KILMEADE: I'm a little confused. What do you mean by the wrong doctors? Let's say someone wakes up with the identity of a different culture or a different skin color. Is it that big of a deal? Let them do it.
ABLOW: It's a huge deal, because number one, I don't think there is data to support that people are born into the wrong skin color. I don't believe that we have that data. Others might disagree, I don't think that we have that data. And the idea that I would be pressured by doctors at an academic medical center to support the notion of my 10-year-old being tattooed head to foot black because he or she feels that that's her identity is a direct parallel to what is happening today at Children's Hospital in Boston where kids are getting injected with hormones because they say I'm a girl not a boy.
HASSELBECK: Let me ask you this. This is one sound bite, and I'd love your reaction. It's when she said, Rachel did, that she was offended by the blackface comparisons. And then your analysis.Watch:
[CLIP OF DOLEZAL: I also don't, as some of the critics have said, put on black face as a performance. I have a huge issue with blackface. This is not some freak Birth of a Nation mockery blackface performance. This is on a very real, connected level, how I've actually had to go there with the experience.]
HASSELBECK: So her experience here. And then I'd like you to take it to the next place where how it affects her children. She says she identifies as culturally black. They identify her as culturally black. So how does it affect them psychologically?
ABLOW: Well, listen, the sad truth is she may not be lying. That is sad. Because to my mind, that would indicate a complete separation from fact and reality. How does it affect her children? Well, they're going to be asked to support their mom because they love their mom. But more than that, they're going to be asked to share her vision that the truth, that facts, that reality don't define what you say you are or how you conduct yourself in the world. And I'm telling you, it doesn't have to just be race or gender that people assert and then change by tattooing or surgery. It can be age. People saying they were born at a particular time but they're really much older or much younger. It can be species, people saying I know I look human to you, but I'm not. I'm something different. And don't discriminate against me because I wear a zebra outfit. And I want a tail grafted on to the lower part of my back. There are surgeons in America who will do that. You know how I know? Because they're doing it could kids right now. With surgeries that change their gender.
Previously:
Fox's Tom Shillue On Rachel Dolezal Race Controversy: “I'd Go Black If I Could”
Medical Experts Condemn Fox's Keith Ablow: “Shameful” And “Unfortunate That He Is Given A Platform”