Conservative group One Million Moms has set their sites on transgender teenagerJazz Jennings, star of TLC’s show “I Am Jazz,” along with her parents, Greg and Jeanette Jennings. The group claims in a petition offensively titled “God doesn’t make mistakes (but humans do)” to advertiser Mitchum that the parents “supported this decision instead of giving guidance to the confused child” and that the “pro-transgender” show is “attempting to normalize the transgender lifestyle and make it appear OK while using a young cast member to lure a young audience.”
To give them credit, they are correct in one regard: the show, and the Jennings family, have helped normalize not the transgender “lifestyle,” a code word conservatives like to use to describe people they actually want to eradicate (see also: gays and lesbians), but transgender life and the fact that transgender people exist.