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

“Gender is Not Fluid, It’s Ordained by God”

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.

“I want to be clear. I have nothing against him,” Dillard wrote, intentionally misgendering Jennings. “I only have issue with the words and definitions being propagated here.”

For her part, Jazz Jennings responded with class. “Every day I experience cyber-bullying,” she wrote, “but I keep sharing my story. Today was no different.”

The Duggars and their extended family are familiar with controversy. “19 Kids and Counting” was canceled after eldest son Josh Duggar’s admission of sexually abusing several young girls when he was a teen, including some of his own sisters.

In an email to HuffPost, TLC’s executives advised that “Derick Dillard’s personal statement does not represent the views of TLC.”

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