Bachelor Nation's Josh Seiter pretended to be transgender as an “experiment.”

Bachelor Nation's Josh Pager now says he pretended to be transgender for months as an experiment.

“For the last five months, I have been conducting a social experiment online to expose how gullible and delusional the left is,” said Seiter, 37, during a Tuesday, Oct. 15, appearance on “Prime Time With Alex.” Stone”. Podcast. “The whole idea of ​​postmodern gender ideology is ridiculous and absurd, and I tried to be the most extreme version of it and take it to its logical end to show how ridiculous it is that people can actually believe that biological men are magically transformed into women because they have a gender crisis.”

Pager, who was eliminated in Week 1 Kaitlyn Bristowe's season of The Bachelorette in 2015, first posted about transgender issues in May.

“I no longer want to hide who I am and I no longer want to deal with the mental turmoil that comes with suppressing such an important (part) of me,” he shared in an Instagram statement at the time. “So I ask for your thoughts and prayers – and patience – as we transition.”

Seiter then began posting videos of himself wearing makeup, jewelry, and women's clothing, discussing the transgender experience in a way that made some people wonder if he was making fun of it. In a video shared earlier this week, he said he “thought long and hard about having buttock surgery before deciding against it.”

“Our masculinity does not negate our femininity,” he said in the clip.

Pager's videos have sparked backlash online.

“It's really sad how you make the transition so ridiculous. “It’s detrimental to a community that already faces so many hurdles to living their authentic lives,” one Instagram user commented on his latest video.

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“Your behavior during your 'transition' was offensive and appalling,” another person chimed in after Seiter confirmed his transition was a hoax.

This is not the first time that Seiter has caused controversy. He was accused of faking his own death in August 2023 after a statement was shared via his Instagram account that he had died. Seiter claimed his account was hacked and denied allegations that he posted the statement himself to attract attention.

“People like to accuse me of a lot of things,” he said during an August 2023 appearance Ashley Iaconetti And Jared Haibon's Almost Famous podcast. “I think it’s kind of funny.”

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Seiter also raised eyebrows when he posted screenshots of an email in April 2023 that said Gypsy Rose Blanchard allegedly sent him after he sent her flirty messages.

“I may look cute, but I have a smart mouth and I'm not afraid to tell you to go f*** yourself,” Blanchard, 33, reportedly wrote, adding that she's married and loves people like Seiter are “disgusting” in front of her.

Pager wrote in a subsequent Instagram story: “It breaks my heart that things didn't work out between me and Gypsy, but I won't give up on finding love.”