Last week’s freakout at the existence of transgendered person Chaz Bono — and worse, his appearance on “Dancing With the Stars” — by the Media Research Center’s Erin R. Brown was duplicated by her boss, Brent Bozell, in his Sept. 9 column.
Bozell declared that ABC chosen Bono to join the “DWTS” cast “because she’s well-known as an “LGBT” activist, with an emphasis on the ‘T,'” and that he’s joined on the show by “Carson Kressley, the most lecherous member of the old show ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.'” We didn’t know Bozell kept track of that show’s lechery level with such an eye for detail.
Like his dutiful employee, Bozell is appalled by Bono’s mere existence:
This is Bono’s year of media activism, complete with a book last spring called “Transition” (promoted all over the “news” channels) and a promotional one-hour Oprah Winfrey Network special called “Becoming Chaz,” hailed as the story of a “valiant struggle of a sensitive individual to become who he really is.”
Nowhere in any of this celebration is the hard reality. Despite her low voice, and her sideburns, and her awful decision to amputate her own breasts, “Chaz” remains a woman. It’s ridiculous for ABC to argue children won’t be confused by this political-correctness crusade. The entire “transgender” propaganda movement is confused. Indeed, there is a new sexual category to go alongside G, L, B, and T – “Q” for questioning.ABC and the rest of the media universe can do all the pretending they want, but that’s not going to make Chaz a real male.
Apparently, like Brown, Bozell thinks transgenders should be hidden away, with nobody allowed to speak of their existence.