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It’s Easy for This Guy to Challenge Transphobia
Listen to Jon Stewart do it
6 min readOct 10, 2022
The comedian Jon Stewart interviewed the Arkansas attorney general Leslie Rutledge about the SAFE Act on his show The Problem With Jon Stewart. The second season’s first episode, “The War Over Gender,” aired October 7.
It’s free to watch the whole 47-minute episode through Apple — or this 6-minute clip through Twitter, which, three days later, has passed 13 million views.
What Stewart Did Here Was Straightforward
Stewart’s approach was straightforward. He learned to see through organized transphobia.
To be clear: Trans people (and people perceived as trans/queer) often find it difficult to challenge transphobia because they are the ones being targeted by it, and the onslaught is exhausting in its repetition, and they are the ones who are at risk if they don’t…
