Radio morning show hosts Angela Yee, Charlamagne tha God, and DJ Envy have responded to complaints that’s triggered a threatened boycott of their popular program, The Breakfast Club.

The outrage is in response to a comedian, Lil Duval, who made a guest appearance on the show last Friday and was asked what his reaction would be if he found out the woman he had sex with was transgender, after the fact.

“This might sound messed up,” Duval told the three hosts, “and I don’t care: she dying.”

He also said if he did learn he had sex with a transgender woman, he would then be gay — which left the implication that, even though a straight man engaging in sex with a woman could not possibly “change” anyone’s sexual orientation — it would be the worst thing, ever.

Here is the 1st part of the discussion about transgenders with @lilduval pic.twitter.com/OIT6cYn72X — The Breakfast Club (@breakfastclubam) July 30, 2017

On Monday, Charlamagne Tha God pointed listeners to what they said in response: “You specifically heard us say, you can’t do that. It’s a hate crime! You can’t do that. I specifically said you can’t go around killing transgenders!”

But what the hosts did not do Monday was apologize for Duval’s remarks, nor did they expand on their view of what he said. Charlamagne repeatedly stated he was not responsible for “another man’s words” and after the show, he responded to our question why on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/cthagod/status/892056940595077120

News outlets from TMZ to the Washington Post covered the controversy Monday, as the hashtag #BoycottBreakfastClub trended. Laverne Cox weighed-in, along with Janet Mock — who not only recently appeared as a guest on their show, but whose book was used as a prop and the butt of jokes that misgendered her. She wrote her response in an op-ed published Monday in Allure, titled “Dear Men of the Breakfast Club: Trans Women Aren’t A Prop, Ploy or Sexual Predators.”

Duval purposefully misgendered me (as the hosts laugh, thereby cosigning) in an attempt to put me in my place and erase my womanhood. Their fragile masculinity would not allow them to recognize a simple truth: I am an accomplished, beautiful black trans woman. Your willful ignorance will not stop me from being exactly who I am. My sisters and I are here and we exist, and you will not diminish our light and our brilliance.

Charlamagne admitted he laughed at what Duval said about Mock — “that n***a doin’ his thing” — and didn’t think he needed to apologize for misgendering her.

Here is the 2nd part of the discussion about transgenders with @lilduval pic.twitter.com/o7gq0zs1P5 — The Breakfast Club (@breakfastclubam) July 30, 2017

Ironically, Charlamagne is executive producer and cohost of a program called “Online Feud” on MTV. Press reps for MTV did not return calls for comment about the online feud he and his radio cohosts are engaged in. Calls for comment to iHeart radio station 101.5 in New York were also not returned.

Cox added her voice on Twitter:

Some folks think it's ok to joke about wanting to kill us. We have free speech but that speech has consequences and trans folks are — Laverne Cox (@Lavernecox) July 30, 2017

Listeners selected to be heard on the air were all in agreement: the show’s beloved hosts were not responsible. And they said as much on Twitter as well, many of them using transphobic slurs and quoting the Bible.

That's weak bro I'm bisexual and if a tranny tricked me into sex I would want to kill him also — will (@sexicuzAvery) July 31, 2017

But rape by deception is ok? — Price Action (@Afroflaco) July 31, 2017

Why say it again? What would be the purpose? It wouldn't be authentic. — Esha Day (@Esha_Day) July 31, 2017

Trans ppl want us to accept them for who they are. . . Wait they don't even accepts themselves for who they are tf. — DonnyD3 (@d3_donny) July 31, 2017

Isiah 54:17 Romans 8:31 Philippians 4:11 if u need more holler at me. — John earl Hamilton (@JohnearlHamilt1) July 31, 2017

Fuck that bro if you was dude before I want no parts y'all on some nut shit I'm wit @lilduval 🤷🏾‍♂️ https://t.co/L6LNzBut4y — LaNed Ball (@Ned_Flander_) July 31, 2017

People are so straight phobic https://t.co/PTbiYDj9JB — Big Al the Hustler (@SirProfit) July 31, 2017

Charlamagne surely knew about this backlash, given that transgender activist and editor-in-chief of Wear Your Voice magazine Ashlee Marie Preston confronted him at Politicon in Pasadena, California on Sunday about the controversy.

The #BoycottBreakfastClub hashtag is still going strong, nationwide, and has led to a petition.

Hey Tucsonans email @Hot983 and demand they stop airing the breakfast club, a radio show that supports transphobia. #BoycottBreakfastClub pic.twitter.com/HdkkVz6Vzt — 🤙🏽👽 (@tucsoncat_94) July 31, 2017

The Marsha P. Johnson Institute has created a petition in response to the transphobic jokes on the Breakfast Club.https://t.co/kF9WydYgNE pic.twitter.com/y0nZ8HNKCl — Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) (@WoosterCDI) July 31, 2017

Oh hey, guess what, Trans womxn aren't here to trick you, cis men. Fuck what ya heard. #BoycottBreakfastClub https://t.co/Iaj5byCh7E — 🔎ChiefYoncéComing (@thechiefqqara) July 31, 2017

lol @angelayee learned nothing, eh?? you're a sad excuse for a woman #BoycottBreakfastClub pic.twitter.com/xdmR6gksXa — it's just like that (@nothanksbruhh) July 31, 2017

But the man at the center of all this saw no reason to apologize.

"Lil duval they waiting on you to apologize" Me: pic.twitter.com/sngO39icOV — lil duval (@lilduval) July 31, 2017

Mock acknowledged the problem is bigger than just these radio hosts: