Appearing this week on Fox News' Fox
& Friends, psychiatrist Keith Ablow criticized an Obama
administration directive on transgender students.
The Justice and Education departments
advised schools that receive federal funding to allow transgender
students to use the bathroom of their choice.
Ablow, a strong opponent of LGBT
rights, called the directive an “overreach” by the federal
government.
“I think this is a huge overreach by
the federal government which essentially would give them de facto
control of all schools in America forever in every way,” Ablow
said on the program. “What if the federal government, Barack
Obama were to say 'Listen, there are people who find in their
identities – they identify as younger. When they would normally
graduate high school, if they say, 'I'm really still more like 15 or
16,' you must keep them in school.' Well, why can't we leave this to
the states to deal with rationally?”
“Identity is not reality,” he
added. “These are questions of identity. So when the president
seeks to apply this and say, 'Look, we've made a decision. When
somebody says that they're female, they are.' Hey, that's not settled
from a medical standpoint, psychological standpoint, or any other
standpoint.”
Ablow, a regular contributor to Fox
News, in 2011 warned parents not to let their children watch ABC's
Dancing with the Stars because Chaz Bono, a transgender man,
was competing that year.
(Related: Megyn
Kelly calls Keith Ablow's attacks on Chaz Bono “irresponsible.”)