Christian conservative Bryan Fischer
told his radio listeners on Monday that Olympian Bruce Jenner is “on
a suicide train.”
Fischer abruptly segued into Jenner's
recent announcement that he's a transgender woman in the course of
discussing the violence erupting in Baltimore as crowds protest the
death of Freddie Gray.
(Related: Bruce
Jenner says he identifies as female.)
“And the homosexual lobby, the Left,
always wants to blame us for homosexual suicides. Our point is,
'look this is a disordered lifestyle and one of the complications of
this lifestyle is suicidal ideation,'” he
told listeners.
“That's the tragedy about Bruce
Jenner, by the way,” Fischer said. “Forty-one percent of all
transgenders [sic] attempt suicide at some point. So, Bruce Jenner
is on a suicide train.”
While rates of attempted suicide are
high among transgender people, Jenner has received a tremendous
amount of support from his friends and family, including his three
ex-wives.
(Related: Kim
Kardashian says she supports Bruce Jenner 100 percent.)