(CNN) This week, Karen Bass, a Democratic congresswoman from California, launched a Change.org petition calling for Donald Trump to be diagnosed. There are many grounds on which to criticize Donald Trump and to argue against his candidacy. I don't want Donald Trump to become president for lots of reasons. Many people with psychiatric disabilities and other diagnoses have been writing about this since Trump's candidacy became serious, begging abled America to stop stigmatizing mental illness through armchair diagnoses of Donald Trump. Leveraging ableism to achieve electoral goals is no more acceptable than using racism, sexism, anti-gay sentiment, anti-Islamic sentiment, or any other form of prejudice.

Source: CNN August 04, 2016 23:26 UTC