A gay rights media watchdog group is
demanding an apology for remarks aired during a radio segment on
transgender kids broadcast on Sacramento's KRXQ radio station.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against
Defamation (GLAAD) said the radio segment promoted “child abuse”
in an email alert.
During the May 28 broadcast of the Rob,
Arnie & Dawn in the Morning radio show, hosts Rob Williams
and Arnie States raised hackles from the group with comments offered
in a segment on transgender children. GLAAD called the comments
“cruel, dehumanizing and defamatory.”
“If my son, God forbid, if my son put
on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my
shoes,” States said. “I would throw a shoe at him. Because you
know what? Boys don't wear high heels. And in my house, they
definitely don't wear high heels.”
“[T]hey are freaks,” Williams said.
“They are abnormal. Not because they're girls trapped in boys
bodies but because they have a mental disorder that needs to be
somehow gotten out of them.”
“You got a boy saying, 'I wanna wear
dresses.' I'm going to look at him and go, 'You know what? You're a
little idiot! You little dumbass! Look, you are a boy! Boys don't
wear dresses,'” States said. And about eight minutes later added,
“You know, my favorite part about hearing these stories about the
kids in high school, who the entire high school caters around, lets
the boy wear the dress. I look forward to when they go out into
society and society beats them down.”
“We hope that KRXQ holds hosts Rob
Williams and Ernie (sic) States accountable for their defamatory
remarks that encouraged violence against transgender children,”
Rashad Robinson, senior director of media programs at GLAAD, told the
Sacramento Bee. “Their claims about transgender people were
cruel and dehumanizing and showed a lack of standards that we hope
the station will work to immediately rectify.”
KRXQ officials have said the hosts
would respond to the allegations on air Wednesday.