Caitlyn Jenner has taken to social media to praise John Oliver for a segment he did on transgender rights on Last Week Tonight.
During the segment, which first aired on June 28, Oliver called transgender rights a “civil rights issue.” To that, Jenner said “Bravo!”
“It’s pretty simple: call them whatever they want to be called. You can do it. We do it all the time,” he said. “David Evans woke up one day and said, ‘Everyone call me The Edge.’ And we all went, ‘Fine, The Edge, are we talking the noun or the verb?’”
Oliver points out the trans community still faces a “host of obstacles,” so he urged us not to get “too complacent” when it comes to trans issues.
He played a montage of journalists asking personal questions like whether or not their trans talk show guests have the genitalia they were born with or not, which he called “none of your f—king business.”
“Blown away by @iamjohnoliver and @LastWeekTonight's show highlighting transgender rights. Bravo!” Jenner wrote in response.
video via Twitter from Caitlyn Jenner
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