I have been eagerly waiting for this post since I saw this clip from last Sunday's Last Week Tonight.
John Oliver has a great discussion about transgender athletes. I'm for transgender athletes competing with nontransgender athletes, and Oliver's deep dive into the issue comes up with the same logical answer. He does an amazing job approaching this issue with far more balance and calm than I would've.
It's great to see him dismantle the outrageous lie that transgender athletes have stolen 900 medals from others, a laughably easy-to-dispute made-up bit of bigotry. And Oliver does something delicious to watch; dismantle Riley Gaines for the judgemental hater that she is.
But it's two points that he hammers home which I love. The first is the insane injustice transgender athletes endure as bigots dismiss their struggle and journey by insisting they're nothing more than men in dresses. The other is the fallacy that transgender athletes are winning EVERY competition. That's just laughable, but no one in the mainstream media seems to want to challenge the Republican bigots who push that lie.
This is a great piece and one which you should share with everyone you know.
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