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Alex Jones Says Being Transgender Is Like "Being A Giraffe With Purple Spots"
Conservative provocateur Alex Jones said Wednesday that when a person identifies as transgender, it is like calling oneself a giant, colorful giraffe. Jones also likened transgender identity to mental illness.
Claiming that his main objection to transgender issues is the use of taxpayer money to pay for transition surgeries, InfoWars host Jones apparently was discussing the recent story of a transgender man named Trystan Reese who gave birth to a boy weeks ago. The Washington Post reported on the birth Wednesday.
The story quickly garnered national attention and drew fire from transgender critics like Jones and conservative outlets like The Weekly Standard, which offered a sarcastic take on the Post story.
“Why right here, he said that a man that had a baby wasn't a man,” Jones said, according to Media Matters. “Because it said it was a woman that thought she was a man that then got pregnant. She's a woman! You don't put a blue bow on a whale that's a male and say it's a female. You don't look at a male walrus and say it's a female, or vice versa. You don't have a female walrus saying she's a male.”
Jones went on: “I mean this is mental illness, but then they sit there and look at it and they say, 'No you're crazy. Look how crazy Jones is, he said this woman that thought she was a man had a baby,' but they said this man did have a baby. This man is a—was a woman that identifies as a man. It's like magic talk.”
http://www.newsweek.com/infowars-jones-transgender-giraffe-646426
Claiming that his main objection to transgender issues is the use of taxpayer money to pay for transition surgeries, InfoWars host Jones apparently was discussing the recent story of a transgender man named Trystan Reese who gave birth to a boy weeks ago. The Washington Post reported on the birth Wednesday.
The story quickly garnered national attention and drew fire from transgender critics like Jones and conservative outlets like The Weekly Standard, which offered a sarcastic take on the Post story.
“Why right here, he said that a man that had a baby wasn't a man,” Jones said, according to Media Matters. “Because it said it was a woman that thought she was a man that then got pregnant. She's a woman! You don't put a blue bow on a whale that's a male and say it's a female. You don't look at a male walrus and say it's a female, or vice versa. You don't have a female walrus saying she's a male.”
Jones went on: “I mean this is mental illness, but then they sit there and look at it and they say, 'No you're crazy. Look how crazy Jones is, he said this woman that thought she was a man had a baby,' but they said this man did have a baby. This man is a—was a woman that identifies as a man. It's like magic talk.”
http://www.newsweek.com/infowars-jones-transgender-giraffe-646426
And this is the guy who Trump says is the "real news"?
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How can this man be taken seriously?
I never saw him otherwise than twichy ,yelling at hell, spreading bulls***t he calls "news", each one more sloppy than the last. 
I thought that the thing about NASA kidnapping children and sending them to Mars was about the most batshit thing he's ever said. I wonder what kind of products he hawked in that episode? 
I don't know 
Space suits maybe? 
I don't know if I'm going to have the money to keep the doors open for the next two months. I only have enough money to keep going for 1 week, tops! Now I want you to go to Infowarslife.com and buy the new Mammal Sexuality Enhancer! The government doesn't want you to know about this stuff! 
