Radio Host Fired for Comparing Transgender People to Actors | pluralist
"People act and pretend to be different things. Kinda like what you're doing!"
Canadian radio host Dave Wheeler was fired Wednesday after comparing transgender people to actors who "pretend to be different things" during a broadcast earlier this week, CBC News reported.
"There have been multiple disciplinary incidents, and in spite of numerous conversations, he has continued to offend our audiences," a Rogers Media spokesperson confirmed to CBC News.
"As a result, we have ended our relationship with him and he is no longer with the company, effective immediately."
...The "Wheeler in the Morning" host commented on Scarlett Johansson's decision to drop out of a role playing a transgender massage parlor owner in the upcoming film "Rub and Tug" after facing backlash from the trans community.
"I am so confused! I am so confused by the whole transgender community.
I mean literally, there is nothing you can do to make them happy," he said.
"Nothing!
Not a goddamn thing!
Yeah.
Nothing!
People act and pretend to be different things.
Kinda like what you're doing!
Really!
In the grand scheme of things."
The transgender community's response: "Radio, people listen every morning on their drives to work, right?
If that's their first touch with trans people or the queer community, that is derogatory and hateful, then that's what we're going to get from them eventually," Xavier Raddysh, who is transgender, told CBC News in reaction to Wheeler's comments..."
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