Before this week, we’d never paid much attention to Congressman Ronny Jackson.

The staunch Republican offices in Amarillo, and we don’t pay much attention to Amarillo. No offense, Amarillo. We started looking into Jackson this week, though, after he made some less-than-kind comments during a broadcast of Newsmax (the conservative broadcast channel that may be described as right-wing depending on who you ask) about transgender people.

Jackson appeared on Newsmax Tuesday night and proposed that transgender people should be institutionalized en masse because they possess an “underlying level of aggressiveness” that poses a threat to the general public. He also referred to identifying as transgender as “a cancer that's spreading across this country.”

The comments came amid a discussion o

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