Carlson has long nursed and openly pronounced a hate for trans folks. Earlier this year, The Lady and The Dale director Zachary Druckertraced this hate back to his childhood: Carlson's father Dick Carlson was openly transphobic, outing Renee Richards, and purposefully misgendering others like Liz Carmichael in his own reporting.
At one point, he even compared Carmichael to Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer.“Liz Carmichael is the trans bogeyman of Tucker Carlson's childhood,” Drucker told Out. “And just to extrapolate a little bit, Tucker Carlson thinks that his father is heroic.