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TexasTowelie

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Sun Aug 6, 2017, 03:32 AM Aug 2017

'19 Kids and Counting' Spin-Off Star Launches Transphobic Attack on 16-Year Old Jazz Jennings

Derick Dillard of TLC’s Christian extremist reality television series “19 Kids and Counting” and its spin-off “Counting On” launched a transphobic attack on 16-year-old Jazz Jennings this week, also of TLC fame.

“What an oxymoron,” Dillard, responding to a tweet promoting transgender activist Jazz Jenning’s series “I Am Jazz,” began his attack. “A ‘reality’ show which follows a non-reality. ‘Transgender’ is a myth.”

“Gender is not fluid,” Jill Duggar’s husband asserted, “it’s ordained by God.”




Another Twitter user responded, asking if it were “necessary for a grown man to throw shade at a teenage girl,” prompting Dillard to go further.

Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/ryanjent/_19_kids_and_counting_spin_off_star_launches_transphobic_attack_on_16_year_old_jazz_jennings
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'19 Kids and Counting' Spin-Off Star Launches Transphobic Attack on 16-Year Old Jazz Jennings (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
The Duggar 'family' is an absolute blight on this country! VMA131Marine Aug 2017 #1
He is a Cowardly dirtbag, and Jazz is a saint for being so nice LostOne4Ever Aug 2017 #2
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