John Oliver Shows Just How Far The Transgender Community Still Has Left To Go

The media and nation as a whole still can’t seem to grasp a really graspable judgment of transgender.

While we’ve done good strides in a transgender rights movement, there is still a lot of work left to do, as John Oliver showed on Sunday’s “Last Week Tonight.”

At a moment, a village is traffic with stupidity on a few fronts; from speak uncover hosts seeking impossibly personal questions to their transgender guest — questions they’d never ask a non-transgender chairman — to dual transgender people who identified as women being asked during a DMV to mislay their jewelry, makeup and wigs before they could be photographed.

“For a record,” Oliver points out, “you get to collect probably all else on your driver’s license. They ASK we your weight, they don’t import we like a esteem hog.”

“Plus,” he adds, “the whole thought of a driver’s permit print is to benefaction how we demeanour from day to day.”

Most people might not comprehend only how many transgender people live in a United States. One investigate estimated that there are about 700,000 people in a nation who brand as transgender, roughly a race of Boston.

And while a village is gaining wider acceptance, some of that seems to be some-more mouth use than tangible legislated rights.

Take, for instance, Kentucky transgender teen Henry Brousseau

Some of a state senators praised a Brousseau for his “courage,” afterwards voted to defend a check that would distinguish opposite him.

Which is worse, actively hostile a approval of a transgender community, or revelation a transgender chairman to their face how good they are for being themselves and THEN actively hostile a approval of a transgender community?

Both seem rather shitty.

“Last Week Tonight” front each Sunday during 11 p.m. EST on HBO.

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