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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Transgender Rights
John Oliver covers in his own brilliantly cutting, insightful but hilarious way, Trans Rights. Primarily aimed at the US but with globally applicable themes. It’s a 16 minute segment but is crafted respectfully, positively, and is the high water mark that all media should aspire to.
Quote:This week’s gay rights victory was historic, but the transgender community still faces staggering challenges. John Oliver focuses on the “T” in “LGBT.”Available for those with HBO on pay tv (sadly not free to air). It can also be found on YouTube officially here for those in the US with VPN with a US endpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmoAX9f6MOc but can easily be found in YouTube by searching “John Oliver Transgender”, you’ll find many repostings of it.
I also have it on MP4 from the DVR is anyone wants a local copy – Let me know.
It’s worth the watch.
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Thank you Sarah Elizabeth I enjoyed watching.
This is the Youtube link I used without using my VLN service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_wyreGmuwo
I am still having a great-laughing-inside-feeling thinking about that poor weather man. I can understand his confusion that his grip on the world that sex and gender are binary was falling a part. I delighted in the ‘crisis’ transgender people can cause. To see transgender people deal with other people crises in interview situations and being so patient and articulate was also inspiring. To have John Oliver rightly explain that the social norm is not to go round asking people about their genitalia, had me smiling-internally and wanting to say out loud “but John isn’t that why we wear clothes”; at which point, I realised I was just as confused as the weather man.
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Really worth chasing up the full version which can be found on john olivers last week tonight Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/LastWeekTonight
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Thank you Jordan the extra 8 or minutes are well worth watching. Ah the hypocrisy of people.
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brilliant, brilliant, brilliant
thank you Sarah_Elizabeth for posting.I can’t recommend this enough, succinct and stylish explanations of who transgender people are and arguments in support of the rights of transgender people. This could so easily be Transgender 101.
I hadn’t heard of John Oliver until now, and did a web search, he has been a writer and presenter for the “Daily Show with Jon Stewart” since 2006, and has been doing this show for HBO since April last year.
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John Oliver has been around for quite a while. He has an excellent clip on tony abbott entitled ‘Other Countries Presidents of the United States: Australia’ and another on gun control which was also excellent. Otherwise most of his stuff covers american politics yet is still equally interesting and brilliant.
