KRXQ Sacramento Radio Hosts Encourage Violence Against Transgender Children
Even by the flexible moral, ethical, and professional standards of American talk radio, the May 28th segment of KRXQ 98.5 FM Sacramento's Rob, Arnie, & Dawn in the Morning radio talk show makes for a sickening half-hour of ugliness and cruelty. For once, the focus was not LGBT adults, but minors. The hosts, Rob Williams and Arnie States, devoted the segment in question to a vicious diatribe against transgender children, some as young as five, focusing in particular on the case of one Omaha family raising a gender dysphoric child, and their decision to support her transition from male to female.
Williams and States took turns referring to gender dysphoric children as "idiots" and "freaks," who were just out "for attention" and had "a mental disorder that just needs to somehow be gotten out of them," either by verbal abuse on the part of the parents, or even shock therapy.
"Allowing transgenders to exist, pretty soon it becomes normal to fall in love with the animals," they said.
For his part, States bragged that if his own son were to ever dare put on a pair of high heels, States would beat his son with one of his own shoes. He urged parents whose own little boys expressed a desire to wear a dress to verbally abuse and degrade them as a viable response. "Because you know what? Boys don't wear high heel shoes. And in my house, they definitely don't wear high heels.
GLAAD Action Alert: KRXQMy suggestion is to write the sponsors of the show and complain to them, and ask them if they want to be associated with this hate speech. The station probably welcomes all this attention while the sponsors will not.
TAKE ACTION: Demand that KRXQ Radio Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States Apologize for Encouraging Violence Against Transgender Children
June 2, 2009— 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 entire segment beginning at 4:48 by clicking this link:
http://robarnieanddawn.com/newsite/a…%20America.mp3.
Among the comments made by the hosts:
ROB WILLIAMS [11:12]: This is a weird person who is demanding attention. And when it’s a child, all it takes is a hug, maybe some tough love or anything in between. When your little boy said, ‘Mommy, I want to walk around in a dress.’ You tell them no cause that’s not what boys do. But that’s not what we’re doing in this culture.
ARNIE STATES [13:27]: 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. 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.
ROB WILLIAMS [17:45]: Dawn, they are freaks. 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. That’s where therapy could help them.
ROB WILLIAMS [18:15]: Or because they were molested. You know a lot of times these transgenders were molested. And you need to work with them on that. The point is you don’t allow the behavior. You cure the cause!
ARNIE STATES [21:30]: 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.’
ARNIE STATES [29:22]: 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. And they end up in therapy.
To her credit, co-host Dawn Rossi stood up to Williams and States during the segment. Despite her apparent lack of familiarity with transgender issues, Rossi repeatedly defended transgender people and made an on-air apology for her colleagues’ defamatory remarks.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Please contact KRXQ management in Sacramento, California, where the show is produced and demand that radio show hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States publicly apologize. Call on KRXQ to hold Williams and States accountable for their remarks and establish clear standards to ensure their media platform will not be used to condone or promote violence against any parts of the communities they serve.
John Geary
Vice President & General Manager
KRXQ-FM
(916) 339-4209
jgeary@entercom.com
Arnie States
On Air Personality
KRXQ-FM
(916) 334-7777
rad@robarnieanddawn.com
Rob Williams
On Air Personality
KRXQ-FM
(916) 334-7777
rwilliams@entercom.com
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Where is the public outrage? When shock jocks Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "Nappy Headed Ho's" there was a huge outcry from the public. It was all over the news media but when the hate is directed against the LGBT community there is barely a peep out of them. In other posts I talk about bullying in schools and how it must be stopped not only on the schools but in the community, I said…
“I came away with a clearer understanding on how bullying affects everyone, how the key to ending bullying is to bring about a change in culture that must begin at the top. Not just the teachers or the school administrators, but in the community, in the churches, and in the families. Having a GSA (Gay Straight Alliance) is a step in the right direction, but there has to be a zero tolerance on name-calling, calling a person a faggot or using the expression “That so gay.” Churches have to tone down their inflammatory rhetoric. Families cannot throw their sons or daughters out in the street because they are gay, lesbian or transgender.”
We all must show by words and deeds that we will not tolerate this hate.
STOP THE HATE
Update 1:37
While I was listen to the garbage that they were saying to justify their hate speech and so called apology, I jotted down these sponsors. The only sane person on the show was Dawn, at least she was trying to understand while the two guy were just CYA...
AT&T Go Phone - "Media Inquires" I am using the "Corporate Citizenship" email address
BMI Mortgage & Realty - "Contact us"
AM/PM Stores - "Contact us"
Hooters - "Contact us"
I not going to even bother to email Hooters, this is their type of audience
Update 6/4 9:04pm
Snapple, Sonic & Chipotle Pull Advertising From KRXQ. The email campaign to the sponsors is working, here is list of their sponsors...
CARLS"S JR. (CKE RESTAURANTS):
pr@ckr.com Press Room
TOBACCO REPUBLIC:
trcigar@aol.com
ALBERTSON"S:
Christie Wilcox
christine.wilcox@albertsonsllc.com
FLEX YOUR POWER
enewswire@fypower.org Editor
info@fypower.org
NISSAN:
Darryl Harrison - Media
Darryll.harrison@nissan-usa.com
BANK OF AMERICA:
joseph.l.goode@bankofamerica.com
AT&T
John Britton
E-Mail: john.britton@att.com
VERIZON:
Debra Lewis
908-559-7512
Debra.Lewis@VerizonWireless.com
McDONALDS:
Walt Riker
Vice President, Corporate Media Relations
walt.riker@us.mcd.com
Heidi Barker
Sr. Director, Corporate Media Relations
heidi.barker@us.mcd.com
SONIC:
Christi Woodworth
Director of External Communications
SONIC, America's Drive-In
(405) 225-5602
christi.woodworth@sonicdrivein.com
Rachel McKenney
Barkley Public Relations
(816) 423-6482
rmckenney@barkleyus.com
WELLS FARGO:
Media Relations: corpcsf@wellsfargo.com
GRIFFIN & REED EYECARE:
info@LASIKworld.com
PRO CITY MORTGAGE:
procity@procitymortgage.com
Update 7:45pm 6/6
The score as of now:
* Chipotle
* Snapple
* Sonic
* Bank of America
* Verizon
* Carl"s Jr (CKE Restaurants)
* Wells Fargo
* Nissan North America
Update: 10:52
AT&T and Mc Donalds just pulled their ads
Wonderful news.... :)
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