{"id":117148,"date":"2021-02-03T18:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117148"},"modified":"2021-02-03T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T23:42:57","slug":"snls-michael-che-again-slammed-as-transphobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/snls-michael-che-again-slammed-as-transphobic\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL\u2019s Michael Che Again Slammed As \u2018Transphobic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsnls-michael-che-again-slammed-as-transphobic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117148&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Che.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Comedian Michael Che has come under fire for allegedly making another \u201ctransphobic\u201d joke on SNL\u2019s \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, Che, who was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/snl-star-michael-che-accused-of-transphobia-for-caitlyn-jenner-joke\">previously criticized for a joke about Caitlyn Jenner<\/a>, joked about President Joe Biden\u2019s reversal of President Trump\u2019s transgender military ban, calling it \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden signed an executive order repealing Trump\u2019s ban on transgender people serving in the military. It\u2019s good news, except Biden is calling the policy, \u2018Don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tuck,\u2019 which is not good news,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=kbcj3MDa7Rc&#038;feature=oembed\">https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=kbcj3MDa7Rc&amp;feature=oembed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The joke was a reference to the \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d policy from the Clinton-era, which barred gay individuals from openly serving in the U.S. military. LGBTQ advocates immediately denounced Che\u2019s joke on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is Saturday Night Live\u2019s weird obsession with transphobic nonsense? I honestly don\u2019t get it. It\u2019s so lazy and sad. Last night, Michael Che joked about the repeal of the trans ban being called \u2018don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tuck\u2019 \u2014 who is this \u2018joke\u2019 for?\u201d said transgender activist Charlotte Clymer. \u201cFor all the scaremongering over trans people, it never ceases to be incredibly creepy the way some cis people are obsessed with our bodies. It\u2019s gross and weird and creepy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For all the scaremongering over trans people, it never ceases to be incredibly creepy the way some cis people are obsessed with our bodies. It&#8217;s gross and weird and creepy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlotte Clymer \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@cmclymer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmclymer\/status\/1355920493350678528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/saturday-night-live-under-fire-skit-criticized-transphobic-n1256435?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\">NBC News<\/a>, Natalie Drew, a former Army infantry sergeant who is transgender, said that such jokes need to be \u201cchallenged\u201d for fear of hurting transgender people.<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cWhen you start letting these small things take place without being challenged, it eventually snowballs,\u201d Drew said. \u201cIt\u2019s like \u2018locker room talk,\u2019 it\u2019s \u2018boys being boys,\u2019 but when that goes unabated, eventually you run into a situation where they keep pushing the envelope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Drew said the joke was an example of how there needs to be more transgender representation in the \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d writer\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cI\u2019m confident if there were any trans person that joke had to run by, they would have been like \u2018No, we can\u2019t do that!\u2019\u201d said Drew.<\/p>\n<p>However, transgender comedian Flame Monroe lamented the potential censorship of comedians.<\/p>\n<p class>\u201cWhat Michael Che said has no validity because who cares about that? I don\u2019t want comedians to be censored, so I\u2019m not going to bash him about that,\u201d said Monroe. \u201cAs a comedian, I want to be able to say what I want to say, especially when it\u2019s part of what is happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Che was deemed a \u201ctransphobe\u201d by the LGBTQ community in 2019 when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/snl-star-michael-che-accused-of-transphobia-for-caitlyn-jenner-joke\">he made a joke<\/a> about Caitlyn Jenner by likening rapper Kanye West\u2019s Trump support to \u201can old white lady\u201d and suggested West might be transforming into one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s showing up to events in sweatpants and orthopedic sneakers, listening to Kenny G and trying to get black people to like Trump. It\u2019s like, how long before this guy changes his name to Kathy?\u201d Che said.<\/p>\n<p>Che then referred to Caitlyn Jenner as a \u201cfella\u201d alongside his original name, Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, you might think that I\u2019m crazy, but about five years ago, there was a fella named Bruce Jenner, and he moved to Calabasas,\u201d said Che.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Michael Che has come under fire for allegedly making another \u201ctransphobic\u201d joke on SNL\u2019s \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d Last weekend, Che, who was\u00a0previously criticized for a joke about Caitlyn Jenner, joked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892593,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4237,5177,5151,5176],"class_list":["post-117148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-again","tag-michael","tag-slammed","tag-snls"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}