Transgender is a mental disorder
A transgender man threatened to put a smaller, weaker
conservative journalist “in an ambulance” during an on-air altercation on
Friday.
Robert
Albert “Zoey” Tur, a onetime helicopter pilot and journalist, lowered his voice
as he put his hand on conservative writer Ben Shapiro, who was seated next to
him.
The heated
exchange took place during a panel discussion about whether Bruce Jenner
deserved to win ESPY's Arthur Ashe Courage Award on Dr. Drew Pinsky's HLN show, Dr. Drew on Call.
Shapiro
refused to acknowledge that Jenner – or Tur – were actually “women.”
“Facts
don’t care about your feelings,” said Shapiro, an editor-at-large at Breitbart
News and proprietor of TruthRevolt.org. “It turns out that every chromosome,
every cell in Caitlyn Jenner’s body, is male, with the exception of some of his
sperm cells,” Shapiro said.
“We both
know chromosomes don’t necessarily mean you’re male or female,” Tur
“What are
your genetics, sir?” Shapiro replied.
Tur then
put his hand around the back of Shapiro's neck, lowered his voice, and made eye
contact as he promised physical violence for Shapiro's use of male terminology.
“You cut
that out now, or you’ll go home in an ambulance,” Tur said.
Unflapped,
Shapiro replied, “That seems mildly inappropriate in a political
discussion...I'm sorry. It's not rude to say that someone who is biologically
male is a male.”
“You just
called me 'sir,'” Tur responded.
“Someone
who is biologically male is a male,” Shapiro said.
Other
panelists later accused him of being “egregiously” and “aggressively
offensive.”
At another
point in the discussion, Pop
Trigger host
Samantha Schacher objected to Shapiro's use of male pronouns to refer to the
biological male. “You’re not being polite to the pronouns,” Schacher said.
“It’s disrespectful.”
Shapiro
refused to bow, saying, “The entire discussion is whether we're embracing
mental illness and delusion as a society.”
The threat
takes place at 5:30 of the video.
Dr. Drew
acknowledged on the air that Shapiro was correct, and transgender
identification is indeed considered a mental illness.
The American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders reclassified “gender
identity disorder” as “gender dysphoria” in 2012, but the underlying condition
– the inability to accept one's biological sex – remains a mental condition.
Dr.
Kenneth Zucker, chairman of the task force that proposed the change, told
LifeSiteNews at the time, “I’ve seen a lot of banner headlines referring to the
‘removal’ of gender identity disorder from the manual. I’m not sure that is
entirely accurate.”
In his
view, gender dysphoria was not necessarily a defining mark of the person
suffering from it. “For some people, it’s a lifelong condition, and there are
some people for whom it comes and goes, or goes away completely,” he
said.
