Candace Owens Advocates Discrimination Against Transgender People

Candace Owens has advocated for discrimination against transgender people, suggesting that society would be safer if certain groups were not embraced.

Speaking on the latest episode of the Candace Owens podcast, the conservative commentator discussed how people discriminate in everyday life and gave a few examples of her own, including whom she would befriend and hire.

After expressing a preference for men taller than her, Owens said: "I definitely discriminate against men that paint their nails and wear dresses. I don't really care how you feel about that.

"You can wear your dress and you can paint your nails, but I'd prefer you keeping 100 feet away from a playground and all of the feet away from my children and me," Owens went on. "If I see you, I'm going to cross the street if I'm with my kids."

During the episode of the podcast, titled "Why Some People Deserve to Be Discriminated Against," Owens then mocked those who might suggest that she needs to be "more accepting of men who like to wear panties."

"I'm good," Owens said. "You can be more accepting of it. You run that risk when you see a guy that looks like a freak and you're with your children and say, 'To be accepting, I'm gonna put my kids next to him.'

"I am not going to be that person. I'm gonna go, 'That looks weird,' and I'm gonna move away from it. It's that simple."

Owens also said that she would discriminate against any adult—particularly a man—whom she saw alone in a playground, "no matter how normal they look."

"It's a healthy discrimination for me," she explained, before saying that she would also be discriminating in her choice of doctors, dentist, or personal trainer.

"I don't want a dentist with bad teeth," Owens added, before taking a swipe at singer Lizzo, whom she has criticized in the past. "I don't want Lizzo being my trainer. If you want her to be your trainer, have her be your trainer.

"I am going to discriminate against somebody that is that clinically obese. They're never gonna get me healthy. I am good on that.

"So, all of this to say is obviously discrimination is built into us for a reason," Owens said. "It's a survival mechanism, right?"

"We want to survive," she continued. "And so, when we get that feeling. My mother used to refer to it as the heebie-jeebies. When someone just gives you the heebie-jeebies, even if you can't quite put your finger on why, I think you need to lean into that, and I actually think that society would be safer if we discriminated more.

"What's happening now is insanity, because they're telling us to accept everything," Owens said.

She then went on to take aim at Sam Brinton, who was fired this December from their role as an official of President Joe Biden's Department of Energy, after being charged in two separate incidents of stealing suitcases from airports in the U.S.

In June 2022, Brinton made headlines after becoming the deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy. They were the first openly gender-fluid individual in federal government leadership.

Speaking on her podcast, Owens said that Brinton "looked like a crazy person" when they first landed their governmental position, before showing photos of them wearing gowns.

"We're supposed to go, 'Oh my God, yay. It's so inclusive and I love it,'" Owens said. "No, when I saw it, I went, 'I'd like to discriminate against that. Yeah, I wouldn't like my tax dollars to go toward that.'

"I just feel like that person needs to stay away from me and my family. I don't want them in any positions of power. I don't want to invest in that in any way, not even with my tax dollars.'

"And it turns out that if we had that healthy dose of discrimination as a nation, that person wouldn't have been able to victimize two women, because that's what [Brinton has] done," Owens added.

In November, Brinton was placed on leave after they were accused in a complaint filed in October of stealing a woman's suitcase from Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport's baggage claim in September.

The complaint noted that the maximum sentence for the felony theft charge that Brinton could face is five years in prison, a $10,000 fine, or both. Brinton's next court hearing is to take place on December 19.

On Friday, an arrest warrant was issued on charges of grand larceny, after Brinton was accused of stealing the luggage of another woman from the Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas back in July, per Fox News.

Amid the headlines surrounding the alleged thefts, a Department of Energy spokesperson said: "Sam Brinton is no longer a DOE employee. By law, the Department of Energy cannot comment further on personnel matters."

Suggesting that the thefts would not have taken place had Brinton not landed their governmental position, Owens said on her podcast episode that the fired executive probably wanted the "underwear" of the complainants.

Calling Brinton a "freak," she said: "If only we as a nation were willing to discriminate right when we saw [Brinton] wearing all those dresses and thigh-high slits, maybe these young women wouldn't have been victimized.

"All of this to say, ladies and gentlemen, I openly discriminate against weirdos and freaks, and I encourage you to do the same."

Newsweek has reached out to Brinton for comment.

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