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Talk show host Jon Stewart apologized Friday for making fun of transgender people in the past.

A nine-year-old petition called for Stewart to "reject transphobia and respect gender identity" over the Stewart referred to the jokes he made as a host of "The Daily Show on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2015 as "s***ty and reductive" during an episode of his program The Problem with Jon Stewart. Jon breaks down the gender binary and gender spectrum in this week’s episode. Stream the free episode now on Apple TV+.— The Problem With Jon Stewart (@TheProblem) The Friday episode was dedicated to Stewart "break[ing] down the gender binary and gender spectrum," according to [Jon Stewart](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/jon-stewart) apologized Friday for making fun of [transgender people](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/transgender-issues) in the past.

Jon Stewart is winning praise after he confronted the Arkansas attorney general over the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

You can tell he actually studied up and worked to understand the issue. But if he’s going to occupy the privilege he has, it should be used for some good, and here it is. It shouldn’t take Jon Stewart—cis, white, middle-aged, problematic—to draw attention to, to “legitimise”, what trans people have been saying all along. The law is currently the subject of [a legal challenge](https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/08/26/arkansas-judge-block-trans-youth-healthcare/), with a trial due to begin in October. Stewart said: “If your child is suffering from paediatric cancer and the state comes in and says to you, ‘They recommend chemotherapy but we’re not going to let you do that. When Rutledge said she had friends who had lost children to paediatric cancer, Stewart said: “I’ve got some bad news for you. Watch the full interview on [October 8, 2022] They’re not the mainstream, but they’re an organisation, so that’s who you have to be treated by.’ [October 7, 2022] Comedian and political commentator Jon Stewart took Arkansas attorney general Leslie Rutledge to task on the law in his Apple TV+ show The Problem with Jon Stewart – and it was truly something to behold. [banned gender-affirming care](https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/30/arkansas-trans-transgender-healthcare-bill-ban-asa-hutchinson-dan-levy-laverne-cox-dwyane-wade/) for minors in a devastating blow to the state’s trans community.

Woke Jon Stewart apologizes for ridiculing transgender people on The Daily Show and telling jokes about 'tranny hookers' - on latest episode of his ratings ...

Did they steal classified nuclear intel from the White House and keep it in a humidor in Florida?' Did trans people storm the Capitol? 'But now you’re a woman, which means your looks are really the only thing we care about.' I want to say it's in the 50s, but it could be higher. At that point, it's something you do. On the season 2 premiere of the show, Stewart addressed The War Over Gender and apologized for some of the jokes he made earlier in his career that mocked transgender people

Attorney General Leslie Rutledge's national embarrassment by Jon Stewart in his interview of reasons for backing the punishing and dangerous Arkansas ...

It’s addressed at the issue. The surprise was that she was stupid enough to be interviewed by Stewart. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s national embarrassment by Jon Stewart in his interview of reasons for backing the punishing and dangerous Arkansas legislation to prevent gender-affirming care for children was not exactly a surprise.

For most of recorded history, women were just defined by whatever men had in their wallets that day,” the comedian points out.

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