Michelle Duggar still thinks trans women are child predators
Jim Bob justifies his son's actions by claiming he was just a "child preying on a child"
It’s with some irony that Michelle Duggar (19 Kids and Counting) still feels comfortable calling trans women child predators, given the still fresh scandal surrounding her son.
Last month, it was revealed that eldest son Josh Duggar had molested five girls, including his own sisters, while he was a teen. Duggar and her husband, Jim Bob, appeared on Fox News this week to address the issue, with Duggar using the chance to once again reiterate that she thinks trans women only claim to be transgender in order to prey on young girls.
Last year, Duggar recorded a robocall in Arkansas which warned voters that transgender women represented a danger to children. She stated that “males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female” will enter women-only areas.
“You were in the news making robocalls,” said Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who interviewed the Duggars, “that suggested transgender people might wanna go into the bathrooms of girls, locker rooms of girls and that they be child molesters. Folks have used that in the past week against you, saying, ‘How could you fairly,’ in their view, ‘compare transgender people to child molesters, suggest they are child molesters, knowing what you know about Josh?'”
“I think that protecting young girls and not allowing young men and men in general to go into a girls’ locker room is just common sense,” Michelle Duggar replied.
“But this is different because you injected child molestation into it,” Kelly retorted.
“I think you actually said ‘pedophile’ in that,” Jim Bob Duggar interjected. In a stunningly short-sighted defense of his son, he then attempted to clarify that Josh Duggar was not actually a pedophile, which is why they could claim that trans women are.
“A pedophile is an adult that preys on children,” he said. “Joshua was actually 14 and just turned 15 when he did what he did. And I think the legal definition is 16 and up for being an adult preying on a child. So he was a child preying on a child.”
Well, that makes it totally justifiable, Jim Bob. Carry on comparing transgender people to child molesters, because your logic is sound.
He also expanded on exactly what Josh Duggar had done to his victims, stating that he “was just curious about girls, and he had gone in and just basically touched them over their clothes while they were sleeping,” adding that there were, “a couple of instances where he touched them under their clothes, but it was like a few seconds.”
One of Duggar’s victims, Jessa Duggar, also spoke in her brother’s defense.
“People who are calling him a child molester or a pedophile or a rapist, some people are saying,” Jessa told Kelly. “I’m like, ‘That is so overboard and a lie really.’ I mean people get mad at me for saying that, but I can say this because I was one of the victims.”
The Duggars’ seeming inability grasp their own hypocrisy — painting innocent trans women as child molesters when their own son molested five girls — was repeatedly challenged by Kelly during their interview. Naturally, the devoutly Christian family used religion to justify their actions.
“Christianity is not about being perfect or about being a perfect family, but it’s actually about being forgiven,” Jim Bob explained. “And so I think, as people on the outside think, ‘Well, Christians are supposed to be perfect. You’re supposed to live this perfect life.’ No. You know what? All of us as Christians, we struggle every day.”
You read that correctly, folks. The incestuous molestation of young girls is just a “struggle.”
Watch the interview below:
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