The Media Research Center is rather prone to transgender freakouts, and it’s having another one, induced by transgender actor Laverne Cox getting a starring role as a transgender lawyer in the new TV series “Doubt,” thanks to Alexa Moutevelis Coombs’ Feb. 16 post.
After quoting Cox’s character saying, “I’m a woman, but I used to be a man,” Coombs huffed, “Sorry, but there is no ‘used to be.’ As much as you change your outside appearance, you can’t change your chromosomes.” Coombs then quoted two of the most transphobic doctors around to back her up.
The first, Joseph Berger, is so extreme that even the highly anti-LGBT National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality distanced itself from his views. The other, Paul McHugh, has been thoroughly discredited, as we’ve noted. The fact that Coombs repeats their lengthy titles — Berger is “a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,” McHugh is “former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry” — is a sad attempt to play the authority card.
But Coombs wasn’t done whining. She went on to complain that “To further force this down our throats, they are also planning some transgender sex scenes between Cox and a man<‘ to which she shrieked: “Sorry, but I am in NO WAY interested in the ‘nitty gritty’ of what goes on between a man and a transgender woman!”
Coombs concluded by grousing that “There is no DOUBT that this show will be a liberal social justice warrior’s dream, and a nightmare for the rest of us.”
Attacking TV shows that don’t conform to the MRC’s narrow right-wing agenda is what MRC writers like Coombs are getting paid to do.