Jesse Watters of Fox News fame has been in front of the camera for more than 20 years, making his TV debut as a correspondent on “The O’Reilly Factor” in 2003. He was given his own Saturday evening show, “Watters’ World,” in 2017 and also began co-hosting “The Five” along with other Fox News personalities.

In 2023, Watters received a big promotion, taking over Tucker Carlson’s coveted 8PM ET weeknight slot with “Jesse Watters Primetime.” Watters has become infamous for his bombastic sarcasm and controversial remarks. “The Five” and “Jesse Watters Primetime” are the first and second most-viewed cable news programs in the country, respectively. Watters has used his national cable platform to make bigoted, insensitive and flippant comments about the LGBTQ community. Here’s a timeline of just some of those remarks.

July 11, 2013

In a “Watters’ World” segment for “The O’Reilly Factor,” Watters interviewsattendees of New York’s Mermaid Parade, many of whom are dressed in drag, and disparages them using homophobic and transphobic talking points. He questions whether a male teacher in a dress is “setting a good example” for kids, makes fun of a drag queen for asking to be referred to as “she” and says that “a lot of the transvestite community descends on Coney Island during this parade.” During the segment, Fox splices in a movie clip of a character vomiting to demonstrate Watter’s disgust with the whole event.

July 7, 2014

“The O’Reilly Factor” airs a mocking segment of Watters’ visit to the San Francisco Pride march, where the correspondent can be seen treating LGBTQ revelers like a strange spectacle. During the segment, which had been shot the prior week, Watters questions drag performers about whether they like women, asks whether he can hold a “straight pride parade” and questions whether Pride events force homosexuality “down other people’s throat.”

Oct. 15, 2015

Watters and O’Reilly joke about being unsure of the gender of one of Watters’ interviewees, who may have been trans.

Aug. 25, 2017

Watters deadnames transgender former U.S. Army soldier Chelsea Manning and calls her a “huge traitor” for leaking classified documents.

Feb. 3, 2022

Watters applauds Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem after she signs legislation excluding transgender girls and women from female school sports. He frames the restriction as protecting women rather than discriminating against transgender students.

Aug. 2, 2022

Watters says pro-LGBTQ teachers are “exhibiting the same types of behaviors that people do use when they do groom children to exploit them for sexual purposes.”

Oct. 5, 2022

Watters claims Senate candidate John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, supports “castrating kindergartners.” The accusation distorts Fetterman’s support for transgender people and gender-affirming healthcare.

Oct. 13, 2022

Watters claims “little kids are losing their gender because they get stuffed in classrooms with grooming teachers.”

Oct. 21, 2022

Watters promotes paranoia about John Fetterman’s openly bisexual wife, Gisele, saying: “Has the bisexual Brazilian immigrant been vetted? I doubt it. But that’s the point. They’ll vote with Schumer 100% of the time and Gisele becomes the star. You’ll see her on MSNBC every week, on the cover of Vogue. When Hunter finds out she’s bisexual, he’ll make a run. I’m sure the Chinese already have a folder on her.”

Oct. 24, 2022

Watters warns parents about “demonic teachers” turning classrooms into drag shows. He then attacks transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney and falsely portrays a White House discussion about transgender youth as support for children receiving surgery without parental permission.

Oct. 26, 2022

Watters claims that Drag Queen Story Hour events were created because they “can be used to change the mainstream opinion of fringe sexual activity including, but not limited to, sex with children.”

Jan. 11, 2023

In response to a recent Federal Aviation Administration system outage, Watters speculates that the agency had prioritized “changing the word ‘airmen’ because a transvestite pilot might get offended” instead of modernizing their computer systems, while joking with his “The Five” co-hosts about the hypothetical pilot’s pronouns.

March 13, 2023

Watters blames the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on the institution being a “woke Biden bank” and holding events for Lesbian Visibility Day and Pride Month.

March 17, 2023

Watters suggests that young people are transitioning for attention and internet fame, and he blames trans celebrity Dylan Mulvaney for setting this example: “Dylan’s not the only person who wants attention. Kids who see Dylan on TikTok, who feel that they’ve been ignored, might take this as their ticket to getting attention. ‘It worked for Dylan, why wouldn’t it work for me?’ And what are we left with? We’re left with an attention-addicted, gender-confused generation.”

May 23, 2023

Watters attacks retail giant Target for selling tucking swimsuits and spreads misinformation claiming that some of them are for children.

June 12, 2023

Among the guests on “Jesse Waters Primetime” is a fifth grade teacher from California who was put on leave following a school board meeting where he carried a sign with a swastika and Pride flags and then delivered a speech decrying “transgender ideology.” To tee up the interview, Watters says the teacher was punished for “saying what 70% of the country believes and what 100% of science believes” about trans people.

July 11, 2023

Watters says, “Some people have told me that I have actually done more for women’s sports than Megan Rapinoe has done, that maybe she’s a traitor in the war on women and I have fought valiantly in that war, obviously on the women’s side. That’s not me saying that. I actually disagree with that. I’m just saying it’s something that’s being said.”

July 17, 2023

Watters’ mom, a Democrat, calls into “Jesse Watters Primetime” on the first day of its new 8 p.m. timeslot and advises her son to avoid “conspiracy rabbit holes” and encourage his viewers to “take less interest, for example, in other people’s bodies.” Watters responds to the latter advice by saying, “We’re trying to keep other people’s interest away from children’s bodies,” seemingly referring to transgender healthcare for minors.

July 21, 2023

Watters compares gender-affirming care to “harvesting healthy organs.”

July 27, 2023

Watters claims “big trans is taking advantage of confused kids, and they’ve created a billion-dollar industry that preys on minors.”

Nov. 16, 2023

Watters ridicules Target for selling Pride-themed “Nutcracker” decorations and other LGBTQ-inclusive holiday products. During the segment, he and Riley Gaines, a former college athlete who advocates for keeping trans women and girls from participating in female sports, question if the retailer is “sexualizing Christmas for children.”

Nov. 21, 2023

Watters spends nearly 10 minutes mocking Tortuguita, a nonbinary environmental activist killed by police near Atlanta. He repeatedly misgenders Tortuguita, calls them a “trantifa treehugger” and gives Gays Against Groomers founder Jaimee Michell a platform to mock Transgender Day of Remembrance.

April 1, 2024

Watters ridicules Transgender Day of Visibility,