One Million Moms Goes After I Am Jazz

The right-wing group wants Revlon to pull ads from the reality show about transgender teen Jazz Jennings.

Trudy Ring

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

Read Full Bio

Trudy Ring

August 21 2015 11:05 PM EST

November 17 2015 5:28 AM EST

trudestress

Sorry to interrupt...
But we wanted to take a moment to thank you for reading. Your support makes original LGBTQ+ reporting possible. Help us hold Trump accountable.

One-time Monthly

$19.67 $50 Other

$5 $19.67 $50

One Million Moms, the right-wing group that has attacked many LGBT-supportive TV programs, comic books, and ad campaigns, is now going after the reality show featuring transgender teenager Jazz Jennings.

The TLC show I Am Jazz "is attempting to normalize the transgender lifestyle and make it appear OK while using a young cast member to lure a young audience," reads a post on the One Million Moms website. The cable channel "is attempting to desensitize America's youth," the post continues, and it also attacks Jazz's parents for supporting her gender transition "instead of giving guidance to the confused child." Jazz, now 14, was assigned male at birth but has identified as female since her early childhood.

The group urges its supporters to contact Revlon, the maker of Mitchum deodorant, which advertises on the show, and demand that the company end its sponsorship.

One Million Moms is a project of the virulently anti-LGBT American Family Association, which has been designated a hate group by the progressive Southern Poverty Law Center because of the damaging misinformation it spreads. There are most likely far fewer than a million mothers in One Million Moms; its Facebook page has about 75,000 "likes."

The group hasn't had a lot of success with its campaigns, which include a failed effort to have Ellen DeGeneres fired as a JCPenney spokeswoman. Its Facebook page does note a recent success, though, with ChristianMingle.com agreeing to pull its ads from the TV Land show Impastor, in which a young man trying to elude loan sharks poses as a gay minister in a small town.