Calif Radio Hosts Targeted For Transgender Remarks

The alliance said it was not criticizing the third host, Dawn Rossi, because she defended transgender people on the show.

John Geary, vice president and general manager of KRXQ, did not return a telephone message or e-mail Friday.

During a follow-up show Wednesday, States said he never advocated abuse. He said his comments were meant only as a joke and that he didn't do anything wrong, according to a report in The Sacramento Bee.

During the May 28 broadcast, States and Williams began discussing the California Supreme Court ruling uphold Proposition 8, the initiative on last November's ballot that banned same-sex marriage. The hosts then turned their attention to transgender children.

"If my son, God forbid, if my son put on a pair of high heels, I would probably hit him with one of my shoes. I would throw a shoe at him," States said on the air.

He went on to suggest that people will beat up high school boys who wear dresses: "I look forward to when they go out into society and society beats them down. And they end up in therapy," States said.