In an interview with Newsmax, Jackson baselessly said that transgender women “have an underlying level of aggressiveness” and suggested they be forcibly committed to mental institutions.

“We have to treat these people,” he said. “We have to get them off the streets, and we have to get them off the internet, and we can’t let them communicate with each other. I’m all about free speech, but this is a virus, this is a cancer that’s spreading across this country.”