Jon Stewart

2022 - 10 - 8

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Apple put the trans rights-focused season premiere of The Problem ... (The A.V. Club)

The episode includes Stewart's hard-hitting interview with Arkansas attorney general Leslie Rutledge.

[is available, for free, to anybody with an Apple account](https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-war-over-gender/umc.cmc.1jj39s607lehulo4k0iscsarp), regardless of whether you have an Apple TV+ subscription or not. It’s a clear example of Stewart using his platform, and his privilege, to force Rutledge to face the statements that the trans people hurt by her policies have been making for years, in a way that brings some of that Apple-backed visibility to the issues, and the lies so frequently told about them. It is, honestly, the kind of thing we’ve been hoping to see from Problem ever since its first season debuted back in September 2021: Stewart at his best, calmly disassembling every false justification that Rutledge presents for her backing of laws that cut off trans Arkansas kids from access to gender-affirming healthcare.

Social Media Buzz: Ukraine Stamp, Inflation Aid, Jon Stewart (Bloomberg)

BUZZING HEADLINES: Within hours of the devastating explosion on Russia's bridge to Crimea, Ukraine's postal service issued a commemorative stamp echoing the ...

WATCH: Jon Stewart apologizes for old 'reductive' transgender jokes (Washington Examiner)

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 delivers masterful takedown of Arkansas attorney ... (PinkNews)

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.

Ultra-woke Jon Stewart apologizes for old jokes about transgender ... (Daily Mail)

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

Kelly Krout for lieutenant governor: Case made (Arkansas Times)

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.

Jon Stewart Uses the Bible to Shoot Down Republicans' 'Gotcha ... (Yahoo News)

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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Jon Stewart interviews Arkansas attorney general on anti-trans law (Q Voice News)

Arkansas' Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson vetoed the bill, Act 626, last year, calling it a “vast government overreach.” But lawmakers, who dubbed the bill “Save ...

“Shitty and reductive jokes are kind of my brand.” “What can I say, the joke rhymed,” he adds. “But Cow and Chipmunk are not alone! As recently as, let’s say, the 1990s, early 2000s, people were making shitty, reductive jokes about the subject.” [A trial on whether to permanently block the legislation is scheduled for later this month](https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/3615921-appeals-court-upholds-injunction-blocking-arkansas-law-banning-gender-affirming-care-for-minors/) in a federal appeals court. “It’s surprising that the state would say, We want to make a decision for your family and your child, to protect them, even though the American Medical Association, the American Association of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the American Association of Psychiatrists all recommend a certain set of guidelines for children that are expressing gender dysphoria,” Stewart says. Why would you override those guidelines?” That care is related to dramatically reduced rates of suicide, depression, anxiety, and substance use. [ change.org petition](https://www.change.org/p/jon-stewart-and-stephen-colbert-reject-transphobia-and-respect-gender-identity) from 2013 calling on Stewart and his Comedy Central partner Stephen Colbert to “reject transphobia” on their respective shows cites a couple of examples. “We are in a new dawn of gender and sex complexity, where those who don’t fit in a simple binary are meant to be seen with humanity,” Stewart says during the segment. “The War Over Gender,” is the first episode for season two of “The Problem with Jon Stewart.” [ “The Problem With Jon Stewart](https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-war-over-gender/umc.cmc.1jj39s607lehulo4k0iscsarp),” the TV host points out to Ruthledge that the Arkansas law overrides guidelines from major medical associations.

Jon Stewart Uses the Bible to Shoot Down Republicans' 'Gotcha ... (Yahoo Entertainment)

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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