The April 21st episode of Real Time with Bill Maher talked about a number of trans issues with Rep Katie Porter and Piers Morgan. It was an absolutely brilliant episode that I recommend anyone watch. Maher is definitely left-wing, although he's certainly not woke.
That said, I have trouble finding any other examples of mainstream media di…
The April 21st episode of Real Time with Bill Maher talked about a number of trans issues with Rep Katie Porter and Piers Morgan. It was an absolutely brilliant episode that I recommend anyone watch. Maher is definitely left-wing, although he's certainly not woke.
That said, I have trouble finding any other examples of mainstream media discussing trans issues. The closest I've see are recent Dr Phil episodes.
Think that one was an older show with Kara Dansky. Think I'd seen a more recent one with Muslim reformer Asra Nomani.
Seem to recollect a segment from the latter of an exchange between a man and a transman over who gets to call themselves a man. But neither of them said exactly what they think qualifies a person as such. The guy apparently thought that the word means an "adult human male" while the transman apparently thought it meant "anyone who has any sort of a passing resemblance to an adult human male". Entirely different kettles of fish; with such contradictory definitions it's little wonder there's so little progress on the issue.
The April 21st episode of Real Time with Bill Maher talked about a number of trans issues with Rep Katie Porter and Piers Morgan. It was an absolutely brilliant episode that I recommend anyone watch. Maher is definitely left-wing, although he's certainly not woke.
That said, I have trouble finding any other examples of mainstream media discussing trans issues. The closest I've see are recent Dr Phil episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTSE2C8E_5I&list=PLgCCULqQ1mqHbKMR7OgptTPgXUGR9dKmb
Think that one was an older show with Kara Dansky. Think I'd seen a more recent one with Muslim reformer Asra Nomani.
Seem to recollect a segment from the latter of an exchange between a man and a transman over who gets to call themselves a man. But neither of them said exactly what they think qualifies a person as such. The guy apparently thought that the word means an "adult human male" while the transman apparently thought it meant "anyone who has any sort of a passing resemblance to an adult human male". Entirely different kettles of fish; with such contradictory definitions it's little wonder there's so little progress on the issue.
The Dr Phil episode is from about 2 weeks ago. I wouldn't call that "old."
🙄 Relatively speaking. If it will make you happy I suppose I might edit my comment to say "older" ...
In fact, I did say "older".