Jon Stewart's The War On Gender Stands Up For Trans Kids In Ways The Mainstream Never Has Before

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Transgender people have grown accustomed to mainstream media treating us as lesser beings. We are political bargaining chips or points of debate used to sway voters who are still ignorant of our existence or want to strip away our rights. Like homosexuals before us, our rights are being torn to pieces with dwindling healthcare options and bigoted legislation that demonises us, making life harder and crueller to navigate. Things aren’t getting any better, so any and all support from those outside of our circles is essential. But even that is rare, with comedians and corporations seeing us as quick punchlines or expendable pieces of representation with a clear capitalist incentive behind acknowledging us in the first place. I am very tired, but Jon Stewart has given me hope.

The Problem With Jon Stewart’s latest episode went hard on the gender debate currently dominating the sociopolitical landscape. The War on Gender tears apart any and all arguments aimed at transgender women dominating sports, anti-trans legislation emerging in myriad states eager to take healthcare options away from trans youth, and the generally outdated view we as a society have on sex and gender as constructs. As Stewart puts so eloquently, there is an awful lot of non-binary shit in the gender binary we put so much faith in, both in how we might describe women as tomboys or men as lacking in masculinity because they fail to portray themselves in a certain way. It is all conservative bullshit thrown out under the guise of progress when it does little more than wrack up political brownie points ahead of election season. Parents want to protect their children from trans healthcare in the same way they want to protect them from vaccinations, wearing