Memphis, Tennessee, mayoral candidate Judge Joe Brown went on a transphobic rant earlier this week, ending an online discussion that had descended into a chaotic “debate” about his history of anti-trans and misogynist rhetoric.

...During Tuesday’s Twitter Spaces conversation, Brown responded to his critic, who tweets as @bruna­_giovanni, by accusing her of using a “pretend voice.”

“Stop giving us your pretend voice and give us what you really sound like,” he said. “You’re faking your identity. You hate yourself.”

He went on to accuse the speaker of “shirking your responsibility” and questioned what she called herself. “Obviously if you’re so supportive of trans it’s not what you got presented with the first time you became self-aware and you saw what kind of equipment you had between your thighs,” Brown rambled. “What does your DNA show?”