Ben Carson compared being transgender to changing ethnicities

[Eugene]

Source: CNN

Ben Carson compared being transgender to changing ethnicities

By Eugene Scott and Ashley Killough, CNN
Updated 1727 GMT (0127 HKT) July 19, 2016

Washington (CNN) - Donald Trump supporter Ben Carson compared a transgender person to someone who wakes up one morning and decides he or she is Afghan after watching a movie or reading books about Afghanistan.

"For thousands of years, mankind has known what a man is and what a woman is," Carson said to applause Tuesday at the Florida delegation breakfast near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. "And now all of a sudden we don't know anymore. Now, is that the height of absurdity? Because today you feel like a woman, even though everything about you genetically says that you're a man or vice versa?"

"Wouldn't that be the same as if you woke up tomorrow morning after seeing a movie about Afghanistan or reading some books and said, 'You know what? I'm Afghanistan. I know I don't look that way. My ancestors came from Sweden, or something, I don't know. But I really am. And if you say I'm not, (then) you're racist,'" the former presidential candidate continued.

The retired neurosurgeon, who has proposed separate bathrooms for transgender people, has made controversial statements about LGBT issues in the past.

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[Skittles]

1. I would not let that guy pet-sit for me

let alone perform surgery

he is ignorant and hateful

[giftedgirl77]

2. Not even the plants. Hell no.

[Skittles]

3. he could not possibly have been like that his entire life

he is a certified nitwit

[Initech]

4. Wow what a sleazebag.

[Ken Burch]

5. Amazing that the man can even talk under all that sedation.

How do they make sure the morphine drip is always kept out of the shot when he's on tv?

[Behind the Aegis]

6. He is a heterosexist, homophobic, transphobic bigot.

Some of the comments he has made about the GLBT community are flat out lies and others are simply bigotry in motion, including his saying the gay civil rights movement isn't about "real" civil rights and that we just stole from the AA community. He found lots of fellow bigots to suckle at that disgusting teat.