Derick Dillard Says Transgender Star Jazz Jennings ‘Is Being Taken Advantage of’ and That He Pities Her
Derick Dillard — whose previous comments on Jazz Jennings sparked controversy after he wrote that “transgender is a myth”— revealed on Twitter that he believed Jennings is being taken advantage of.On Thursday, after the father of two — who stars on TLC’s Counting On alongside his wife, 19 Kids and Counting alum Jill (Duggar) Dillard — wrote on Twitter that what America needs right now is unity, he replied to a Twitter user who suggested that Dillard sometimes came off as hateful.
The Twitter user specifically referenced Dillard’s transphobic tweet from August where he called Jenning’s reality show I Am Jazz »