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WATCH: John Oliver’s Breakdown of How Far Trans Rights Still Have to Go

WATCH: John Oliver’s Breakdown of How Far Trans Rights Still Have to Go

John Oliver

Just stop asking the genitalia question. 

Though they've made notable strides recently, transgender Americans are very far from social equality.

From service in the military, to inappropriate questions about genitalia that literally always come up, to just trying to renew your driver's license, transgender people's professional and day-to-day lives are rife with complication.

In a way that few can, John Oliver tackles these issues and more in one of his segments from this week's Last Week Tonight. In a rant that spans the absurdity of bathroom bills to the ignorance of media coverage, Oliver makes valid, reasonable points against the most nonsensical objections people have against transgender people. Watch below.

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