. And that became his essence. If that’s his essence, and then he commits theft, and then he lies about it to the police, and those are felonies, then he’s going to be identified as a transgender person."Brinton reportedly lied to police about stealing the luxury suitcase before claiming responsibility. , should have touted qualifications for the job instead of linking experience to sexual identity.
"If he’d have just said, ‘You know what? This is incidental to who I am. I have a very impressive CV, I’m qualified for the job, it just happens to be that I have a different sexual outlook than other people,' and then dropped it, I don’t think he would be in as much trouble, but when you essentialize your identity, and it becomes you, then you have to play by those rules that you’ve set for yourself," Hanson said."I think that’s his problem.
, and they overlooked all this stuff because they wanted, it looks like, to get a guy out there to say, ‘Hey, I’m with the trans community," Watters said."Now, this doesn’t make the trans community look good. The trans community is looking at this like, ‘Oh my God, can you believe this guy?’ This is not a good look."Hanson said the left essentializes race, gender and sexual identity for political purposes.
"They essentialize it. Then they take the downside along with the publicity upside. I don’t think they want the upside, but they’re not willing to say, ‘Well, don’t characterize me as transgender,’ and I think that’s the problem." Ashley Carnahan is a production assistant at Fox News Digital. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox