Wednesday afternoon’s edition of CNN News Central took a trip to Crazy Town when actor and transgender activist Laverne Cox joined the program to react to Speaker Mike Johnson’s announcement that single-sex Capitol Hill restrooms are just that: single-sex restrooms. Cox, however, insisted this was some sort of Nazi-like attempt to create a “untermenschen” or “subhuman” class of people.

Cox declared, “Donald Trump himself said that he wants to make biological sex the law of the land, and that is assigned at birth, and that is binary. This is what Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, has basically also asserted.”

It’s also the law of nature, or science, but Cox continued by going after The Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles, “This has never been about the children, it’s been about scapegoating trans people, eradicating us from public life as Matt Knowles will say and what—Michael Knowles, yeah, that’s his name, Michael Knowles, and I think the most important thing for us to remember as trans people and then as people in general is that when we dehumanize people, we dehumanize ourselves.”

It should be noted that Knowles was talking about transgenderism, as in the anti-reality, science-denying ideology, not people who identify as transgender. Still, Cox rolled on, “I want to say what Brené Brown says about dehumanization. She defines dehumanization as moving a particular group of people into a place of moral exclusion and she uses that phrase, ‘moral exclusion,’ because we as human beings are not hardwired to harm each other. We have empathy and we love each other. But if a group of people is rendered subhuman, the Nazis use the term untermenschen, subhuman, then we can take away their rights, then we can abuse them and commit violence against them.”

There is no right to use the ladies’ room or compete in their sporting competitions if you are a man.

Here is a transcript for the November 20 show:

CNN News Central

11/20/2024

2:27 PM ET

LAVERNE COX: Donald Trump himself said that he wants to make biological sex the law of the land, and that is assigned at birth, and that is binary. This is what Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, has basically also asserted. This has never been about the children, it’s been about scapegoating trans people, eradicating us from public life as Matt Knowles will say and what– Michael Knowles, yeah, that’s his name, Michael Knowles, and I think the most important thing for us to remember as trans people and then as people in general is that when we dehumanize people, we dehumanize ourselves. And I have to, I want to say what Brené Brown says about dehumanization. She defines dehumanization as moving a particular group of people into a place of moral exclusion and she uses that phrase, “moral exclusion,” because we as human beings are not hardwired to harm each other. We have empathy and we love each other. But if a group of people is rendered subhuman, the Nazis use the term untermenschen, subhuman, then we can take away their rights, then we can abuse them and commit violence against them.