John Oliver discusses the latest round of attacks on transgender rights, what’s at stake, and the filthiest of the “Peanuts” characters.
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John Oliver discusses the latest round of attacks on transgender rights, what’s at stake, and the filthiest of the “Peanuts” characters.
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Oh that story about the boy who felt at home with being called “sir”. That was my experience, too. I was called a boy at a McDonalds, and my whole brain just froze up. Because it fit SO WELL and I didn’t know how to proceed. I just wanted to cry and tell that woman how she’d given me a LIFE. How she’d given me freedom.
I had my top surgery at 22 almost two weeks ago. And I can tell you, I feel at HOME. I wake up every morning, and I don’t feel that self hatred. I don’t feel that hopelessness. It actually took me a moment of reflection to realise what was different; I wasn’t hating myself anymore. I could exist in my own home without wanting to scream. I am free. I was given my life back. I haven’t had this joy since I was TWELVE. A decade has gone, and I’m finally able to breathe again. I can breathe, and I can exist as myself. I don’t look at myself in the mirror and hate myself anymore.
Also…yeah, if you’re a trans masculine person…a lot of us discovered cutting our hair to be our first steps to realisation. I knew I was trans-adjacent since 16, but always brushed it aside, because everything in my life had told me I was just pretending and it was less important. At 18, I cut my waist-length hair to a shoulder-length and then a bob-cut…and I felt more and more at home. I cut a side off, and then shorter..and shorter… Until I just looked in the mirror and saw ME. I now have my hair in a mid-length male haircut, and I have never loved myself as much as I do now. I feel happy, and I can finally work on loving the parts of myself I previously hated. I was given a life, and all of it started from an impulsive decision to want to cut my hair in a parking lot. My road to finding myself and allowing myself to BE myself started with a sudden impulse to cut off my hair. Because otherwise, I’d still be firmly in the closet convinced I wasn’t.
Anyway, if you’re trans, you’re awesome, you’re loved, and you deserve to live as yourself.
And thank you, John, for talking about us with so much care and respect. Your original coverage of us helped ME realise more and more of myself. Thank you for caring about us. Thank you for showing you’re here for us, in what way you can. Thank you. It means more than any words can ever express
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ReplyI want to say thank you John Oliver. Part of my family is leaning more to the left now, I’m transgender and I haven’t told them, they started bringing up transphobic stuff and I tried to reply to it and got cut down for it, actually humiliated for trying, really hurt to be treated like that. They watch your show, and you addressed everything I wanted to / tried to address. I’m just thrilled. Maybe they’ll see this, if they don’t trust my information, maybe they’ll trust yours.
ReplyNo one on the right claims hormones cause sterization, its the puberty blockers that cause it. Puberty blockers are the same drugs as chemical castration.
ReplyThe “populist” right sure spends a lot of time on identity politics issues that have nothing to do with middle class or poor people and do nothing but harass minorities.
ReplyThe mental acrobatics in this and Stewart’s episode sounds like the right arguing about their love for guns.
ReplyRegarding that one young girl towards the start of the piece, she’s probably the only trans kid in her school. Those security guards were put up specifically to spite her, a literal child. That’s ghoulish and inhumane how they treat her. It’s genuinely fucked up…
ReplyWhat a great piece, bravo John Oliver!
ReplyPropaganda, using children for your political message.
Replyhow
ReplyI suspect that almost everyone that is against trans rights has never actually met a trans person because once you go to school with a trans kid you realize how much you don’t give a shit where they piss
ReplyIf the bathroom police is like the regular police, then the Trans kids could wait for an active shooter situation and then the police will run away.
ReplySo glad he mentioned some Democrats’ unwillingness to engage on trans rights, like Bloomberg. It’s really a genteel form of discrimination where politicians like him say “we’re not gonna fight too hard for you because it’ll make us unpopular with people who hate you”. The reality is that their silence has allowed such a coordinated right-wing attack on gender-affirming care to go unchallenged even though it’s full of exaggeration and outright lies, as this video shows.
ReplyHalf the story, a female wanting to compete with man, what about the males competing with females, I remember multiple news stories about it, guess was no time for that
ReplyBut yes a solution has to be found which is fair for all sides