Mansplaining John Oliver smugly weaponizes compassion at the expense of womens comfort and rights

John Oliver clearly has a real interest in men being in women’s spaces.Why else would the British comedian spend more than 42 minutes of his HBO show “Last Week Tonight” arguing that men who transition to live as ladies have little or no discernible physical advantage over women?He basically said there isn’t enough research about men on cross-sex hormones.But hey, this wasn’t really a contested issue until about eight years ago, when trans athletes started popping up in women’s competitions — and winning.‘”We have no research about how being trans or undergoing gender-affirming treatment impacts athlete performance in teens,” Oliver said on Sunday’s show.However, separate sex categories for sports were always backed by science and, well, common sense.Oliver seems to be stuck in 2022 — when our society and all of our institutions were held hostage by trans activists, forced to pretend that biological men playing women’s sports was fair and safe to, er, women?Back then, any dissent was deemed transphobic and punished by cancellation.But now, we’ve seen what can happen.And what ironic timing it was for a defense of dudes in women’s sports to air this week.On the same day as Oliver’s show, a UK women’s pool tournament final was decided between two trans women.

Only days earlier, Lia Rose, a trans high-schooler who took last place in a JV boys competition two years earlier, won the high jump at a varsity girls’ meet in Oregon.Two weeks ago, another trans high schooler in the Portland area, Ada Gallagher, blew away the competition in a women’s 400-meter race.And there’s fencer Stephanie Turner, who refused to compete against a transgender rival last week.In fact, Oliver used clips of Fox News covering Turner’s story to argue that trans athletes in women’s sports is a moral panic — a right-wing bogeyman invented to be cruel.But it’s actually a far-left obsession that attempted to rewire all of society and make us bend biolo...