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John Oliver devoted the most recent version of his Emmy-winning sequence Final Week Tonight to transgender rights—particularly, the best way conservatives have short-circuited over transgender youths.
“Extra individuals do appear snug popping out as trans and gender nonconforming, which is nice. However, as you’ve undoubtedly observed, up to now few years some on the correct have really misplaced their minds about trans rights, maybe finest encapsulated by their favourite new joke,” mentioned Oliver.
The HBO host then reduce to a montage of conservatives saying their pronouns are the whole lot from “conservative” to “USA,” culminating with a clip of Ted Cruz, maybe the largest blowhard in Congress, saying, “I’m Ted Cruz, and my pronoun is ‘kiss my ass.’”
Oliver proceeded to elucidate that greater than 100 anti-trans payments have been launched in U.S. statehouses over the previous yr, whereas 12 states have signed or enacted them, “with all of this taking place towards a backdrop of violence and threats, together with assaults and harassment aimed toward hospitals offering gender-affirming care to youth.”
Anti-trans bigots like Abigail Shrier have even began inventing phrases like “speedy onset gender dysphoria” to explain the rise in trans youths.
“As for the speedy rise in children figuring out as trans, as the author Julia Serano has identified, once you take a look at a chart of left-handedness amongst People within the twentieth century, you see a large spike once we stopped forcing children to write down with their proper hand, after which a plateau,” defined Oliver. “That doesn’t imply everybody grew to become left-handed, or that there was a speedy onset southpaw dysphoria. It means individuals have been free to be who they fucking have been.”
“And, to the extent that some younger persons are simply exploring their gender identification, how precisely is that a dangerous factor? Who the fuck are they hurting?” requested Oliver. “Watching the dialog round this, it's arduous to not really feel like, to the extent that there's any social contagion right here, it's amongst adults who've whipped themselves into such a frenzy that they'll discover themselves repeating some humiliating nonsense.”
The “stupidest” of which, in keeping with Oliver, is a brand new speaking level from right-wingers about children who're apparently so confused about their identification that they suppose they’re cats and canines, and are utilizing litter bins in school rooms. This, in fact, is a ridiculous hoax that’s been unfold by right-wing lawmakers and amplified by Joe Rogan’s podcast.
“The truth that you appear to genuinely suppose that that’s taking place is simply heartbreakingly silly,” exclaimed Oliver. “As a result of when you concentrate on it for actually two seconds, the entire thing falls aside. For one, if children have been utilizing litter bins in school, a state consultant from Minnesota would not be the one breaking that information from you. You'd have fucking heard about it. If a child shat in a litter field in first interval, it will be the one factor anybody in that state was speaking about by lunch.”