'The Advocates' Podcast: When Are Transgender Jokes Offensive?

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The Advocates Podcast: When Are Transgender Jokes Offensive?
Comedian Dana Goldberg joins Jessie and Tracy to talk about when comedy can and should be offensive on the latest The Advocates Podcast.
 Jessie Earl
          
          Mar 20, 2018
          
        
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The newest episode of The Advocates podcast is now available -- Jessie and Tracy sit down with comedian Dana Goldberg to discuss the role of comedy, when jokes about trans people and the larger LGBT community are offensive, Katy Perry's inappropriate behavior on American Idol, and the gender pay disparity on Netflix's The Crown.
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The Advocates Podcast: When Are Transgender Jokes Offensive?

Comedian Dana Goldberg joins Jessie and Tracy to talk about when comedy can and should be offensive on the latest The Advocates Podcast.

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Minnesota resident Alice Valentine says she and her girlfriend suffered severe mistreatment at the hands of ICE.

Rep. Andrew Clyde spent several days this week lobbing transphobic attacks against the Delaware congresswoman.

Hockey player Jesse Kortuem shares how his Heated Rivalry-inspired decision to share that he is gay has impacted him and so many others.

“They just shot a lady," a caller told 911 operators shortly after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot Renee Good.

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"On the outside, I was still a top-tier player. On the inside, I was still that kid in Minnesota hiding," the player wrote in his coming-out statement.

These celebrities brought the sex appeal in their steamy videos this year.

The man who shot Renee Nicole Good is a 43-year-old firearms instructor who appears to have defended white supremacists online.

Renee Nicole Good wasn't following ICE agents "all day" before she was killed, her family says.

The university announced Emily Suski's hiring last week, then changed course after conservatives spoke out against her views.

Unless an officer witnesses it directly the man who has been throwing bags of dog poop at Mi SELA won't face charges.