ABC caused a storm of controversy when the network announced its controversial decision to add a transgender male (Chaz Bono) to the cast of “Dancing With The Stars”. But now the deluge of emails and phone calls pouring into ABC’s offices have turned downright scary, according to an unidentified source.
“Of course, they knew there would be some anti-Bono calls and emails,” said a longtime “DWTS” insider. “But this has been more vicious and in larger volume than was anticipated. … Some of the comments are downright scary,” the source told the Sun Times.
As if it wasn’t difficult enough for ABC to navigate the waters of discord and animosity, a psychologist has come forward to urge parents not to allow their kids to watch the show.
Calling Bono’s appearance on the show “toxic,” Dr. Keith Ablow, a FOX contributing blogger, wrote “I advise parents to not allow their children to watch the episodes in which Chaz appears.”
Dr. Ablow, a licensed psychiatrist, compared Bono’s gender dysmorphia to that of mentally ill patients who suffer from limb dysmorphic disorder — the amputation of healthy limbs.
People who suffer from limb dysmorphic disorder believe their lives will improve dramatically if they can only amputate one or more of their hands or limbs. The limb is usually removed at the end of a butcher’s knife when the patient can’t find a sympathetic doctor to perform the operation.
In Bono’s case, she was able to find a sympathetic surgeon to remove her healthy, non-cancerous breasts due to the Supreme court’s acceptance of the transgender community argument that she is a woman trapped in a man’s body. Bono is legally a man despite the fact that she does not have a penis and her reproductive organs are still intact.
The high court’s decision leads to a type of mass psychosis where the public is led to accept this crazy making behavior as somehow normal. This is just plain wrong says Dr. Ablow:
The 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. Source
