Bill Maher messed up bad with the LGBTQ community

HBO "Real Time" moderator Bill Maher was buried under avalanche of criticism on Saturday after he used his closing speeches on Friday to ridicule transgender people and their need to change gender when he said they were doing it because it's "more trendy" than to be gay. .

He suggested, "America's LGBT population seems to be almost doubling each generation," Maher added, "according to a new Gallup survey, less than 1% of Americans were born before 1946, the Joe Biden generation. , identifies it as follows, 2.6% The Boomers, 4.2% Gen X, 10.5% Millennials and 20.8% Gen Z, which means that if we follow this trajectory, we will be all gay in 2054.

Then he jokingly joked, "If this increase in transgender is all biological, why is it regional? He either embarrassed them in Ohio or California made them," before making a few negative remarks.

Response to the HBO hosts' comments were quick -- including controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) applauding his comments -- but the bulk of comments slammed the comedian for making trans kids the butt of a joke.

As former US House of Representatives Brian Wu said: "Ridiculous people may be afraid of trans problems.

There was an interview with a friend yesterday who saw that the term "burning people" had released him.

Dinner. But for Bill Maher to label trans children as "trends," while states ban transhealth care? It's just transphobic. "

Former Buzzfeed LGBT news editor Patrick Strudwick replies: "Bill Maher has always rang my warning bells.

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