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Lacey Schwimmer is on his side . So is Elisabetta Canalis . But there’s at least one person who would vote Chaz Bono off Dancing with the Stars right now if he could: Dr. Keith Ablow. Not everyone finds Chaz Bono’s appearance on Dancing with the Stars to be funny. Referring to Bono’s presence on the show as “toxic,” the psychiatrist has written an editorial for Fox News which reads: I advise parents to not allow their children to watch the episodes in which Chaz appears. The last thing vulnerable children and adolescents need, as they wrestle with the normal process of establishing their identities, is to watch a captive crowd in a studio audience applaud on cue for someone whose search for an identity culminated with the removal of her breasts, the injection of steroids and, perhaps one day soon, the fashioning of a make-shift phallus to replace her vagina. Chaz Bono should not be applauded for asserting she is a man (and goes about trying to look like one) any more than a woman who believes she will be happier without arms, has them removed and then continues to assert that she was right all along—her self-concept was that of a double amputee. Now, all is well. Chaz Bono should not be applauded any more than someone who, tragically, believes that his species, rather than gender, is what is amiss and asks a plastic surgeon to build him a tail of flesh harvested from his abdomen. If only a plastic surgeon would acquiesce, all would be well. In the end, Dr. Ablow believes Chaz should be “empathized with” and treated with “dignity,” just not applauded. It’s a stance that is sure to create controversy. Where do you stand on it?

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Dr. Keith Ablow to Parents: Don’t Applaud for Chaz Bono!