Cut to the yesterday. TLC did a promotional tweet for "I Am Jazz," featuring Jazz Jennings, a 16-year-old trans girl. Derick Dillard -- husband of Jill (Duggar) Dillard -- decided to snipe at TLC and Jennings with the following tweet:
It's unclear why Dillard decided to attack one of his fellow TLC reality personalities with the unprovoked tweet. But his tweet didn't pass without criticism. One person asked him, "Is it necessary for a grown man to throw shade at a teenage girl?"
Which prompted another unprovoked low blow against Jazz:
Jazz Jennings largely ignored Dillard, responding indirectly with the following tweet:
For its part, TLC isn't overtly defending Jazz or "I Am Jazz" from the Duggar husband, choosing to respond with a tweet that essentially says, "that's him, not us":
This time around, TLC decided that it had had enough with the Duggars' son-in-law and announced that he was no longer involved with the network or with the Duggar spin-off series, "Counting On" -- and it's possible that he hasn't been involved with the show for a while:
