{"id":139229,"date":"2022-10-08T00:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T00:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=139229"},"modified":"2022-10-08T01:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T01:00:37","slug":"jon-stewart-pokes-holes-in-arkansas-plan-to-protect-minors-from-their-own-gender-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jon-stewart-pokes-holes-in-arkansas-plan-to-protect-minors-from-their-own-gender-identity","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart pokes holes in Arkansas&#8217; plan to &#8220;protect&#8221; minors from their own gender identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the season two premiere of &#8220;The Problem with Jon Stewart,&#8221; Stewart devotes an entire episode to discussing America&#8217;s &#8220;war on gender.&#8221; Using video clips, audience plants and a panel discussion to demonstrate the importance &#8212; both mentally and physically &#8212; of supporting the gender identities of minors, Stewart capped off the episode with a quick trip to Arkansas to speak with Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R), a woman working against that being a possibility in her state.Rutledge worked to pass the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act in Arkansas a few years ago, which she says will &#8220;protect&#8221; minors from moving forward with what she refers to as dangerous and irreversible gender correction procedures, but Stewart is quick to remind her that nothing is more irreversible than a child&#8217;s death.Describing the ins and outs of the SAFE Act, Rutledge says &#8220;essentially what it does is prevent young people from going through experimental procedures to transition their gender from male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the season two premiere of &#8220;The Problem with Jon Stewart,&#8221; Stewart devotes an entire episode to discussing America&#8217;s &#8220;war on gender.&#8221; Using video clips, audience plants and a panel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[18,19,55],"class_list":["post-139229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}