Psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, the biggest race hustler on Fox News, used the case of a civil rights leader in Washington State accused of pretending to be black as an opportunity on Monday to mock transgender people.
The member of Fox’s “Medical A-Team” was asked during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” to “get inside the mindset” of Dolezal, the president of the Spokane, Washington chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Last week, Dolezal became the subject of national debate when her parents accused her of pretending to be black and saying she was actually white.
“I’ve been saying for a long time we could find ourselves at this moment,” Ablow said on Monday morning. “I’m not judging folks who put forward a transgender position — Caitlyn Jenner and the rest. But, I did note that when you decide that a genetic reality is not reality, if this woman believes to her core that her identity is that of a black woman, one could argue, not me, but one could argue that she should be accepted according to her quote ‘racial identity.’”
“We could be coming to a time — strangely, some might say — where what people say they are is what you have to accept them as,” Ablow continued.
Host Elizabeth Hasselbeck brought up a recent comparison made by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry.
During the “Melissa Harris-Perry” show on Saturday, Harris-Perry asked whether it was possible for Dolezal to be “trans-black,” relating the situation to cis-gender and trans-gender individuals.
Ablow said people’s self-concept could end up being very important.
“I think we’re heading down an untested path where people’s self-concept, or what they say it is, is going to dictate … the way that we have to behave toward them,” Ablow said. “If I believe in my soul that I’m a 65 year old — I happen to be 53 — if I believe I’m 65, I say it to my doctor, I feel it in my core, can I apply for Medicare?”
Ablow said lawyers have told him that, given transgender case law, he might have a point.
Ablow also cited speculation that Dolezal pretended to be black to gain an advantage at work. He said it was similar to the possibility that former Olympian Caitlyn Jenner came out as a woman to appear on a magazine cover.
“That’s a very dangerous position to take if you object to lots of threats, which of course I’ve gotten based on some of my comments,” Ablow said. “The liberal element in this country is very much in this trans-race kind of moment — or trans-age.”
Watch the video below, from “Fox & Friends”:
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