Transphobic Comments Prompt Petition to Cancel Radio Program

A Care2 petition has been launched demanding iHeartRadio drop its show "The Breakfast Club" after a guest and the show's hosts laughed about killing transgender women. Fourteen transgender women of color have been murdered this year. The petition has gathered over 9,400�signatures.

"Transwomen like myself face the threat of violence every single day we step out into the public, just as a consequence for living our truth," said Care2 petition author Sarah Rose, who is also Care2's LGBTQ Issues Advocate. "The Breakfast Club's dialogue is another unfortunate and sick example of humor made at the expense of a subjugated, derided minority that our media is all too happy to applaud. My hope is that this Care2 petition sends a clear message: advertisers and businesses should not stand for advocating violence and hate crimes."

#BoycottBreakfastClub started trending Sunday after the radio program aired.

The hostility began when comedian Lil' Duval called transgender women "boys," which was met with laughter from Charlamagne Tha God and his co-hosts Angela Yee and DJ Envy. The situation escalated when Lil' Duval was asked he would do if, after four months of dating a woman, he learned she was trans.

"I don't care. She dying. You manipulated me...In my mind I'm gay now," he said.

The comment prompted swift outrage.

Duval's comments came the same week Dwanya Hickerson pled guilty to stabbing and killing Dee Whigham last summer. Whigham, a 25-year-old trans woman, was found in a hotel with 115 stab wounds, the majority of which covered her face. Her throat was also slashed three times.

To view the Care2 petition, click here.