The latest episode of CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, also known as the Thunderdome, proves the old maxim that sometimes the best way to make a conservative argument is to just let liberals talk. This is especially true in the case of the recent ban on transgender individuals in the military.
In sum, the deranged idea to emerge from this panel conversation is that a military ban of transgender individuals is identical to a theoretical ban of Black or Hispanic individuals. On its face, such an argument is ridiculous. In more serious times, those advancing such arguments would be laughed out of polite society for suggesting that having immutable physical characteristics (such as skin color) or European non-Anglo-Saxon ethnic origins are somehow comparable to a mental disorder treated with hormone therapy and, in extremis, physical mutilation. Alas, these are not serious times.
Host Abby…
