Thursday, June 4, 2009

Radio station attacks transgender children

GLAAD is calling for action to stop abuse of transgender children by media:
In a lengthy May 28 tirade on the Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning radio show heard in Sacramento, California on KRXQ 98.5 FM and Reno, Nevada on KDOT 104.5 FM, hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States verbally attacked transgender children. While discussing a recent story about a transgender child in Omaha, Nebraska and her parents’ decision to support her transition, the two hosts spent more than 30 minutes explicitly promoting child abuse of and making cruel, dehumanizing and defamatory comments toward transgender children.

You can listen to the segment here. Or read it here and take action.

6 comments:

IT said...

This is all part of the fact of increased crimes against GLBT people since the election. We are the one minority it's still acceptable to hate. And since the righwing is a bunch of bullies who feel impotent from not being in control any more, they are lashing out.

And it's SO WRONG.

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

I shall listen to it later (after choir), but the thing is dreadful!

JCF said...

This, as I received email notification today of the MURDER of YET ANOTHER TRANSPERSON (in Detroit. Another MTF sex worker was assaulted the same night but survived). :-(

[May "Foxy" (assigned the name Curtis Ivy) rest in peace]

How long, Lord, how long???

Göran Koch-Swahne said...

The Radio fragment and the trans (!) script are not the same...

David G. said...

he works in mysterious ways,...Satan does.

Ann said...

Station apology here