Sarah Silverman's viral video promoting a new campaign to close the wage gap is facing backlash over a premise some claim makes light of gender confirmation surgery and the plight of transgender people -- in a country where they can still be fired in 32 states simply for being trans. In her video for the The National Women's Law Center's "Equal Payback Project," the comedian aimed to highlight the gender-based wage disparity by proposing a facetious way to close the gap for herself: having surge...
Sarah Silverman's viral video promoting a new campaign to close the wage gap is facing backlash over a premise some claim makes light of gender confirmation surgery and the plight of transgender people -- in a country where they can still be fired in 32 states simply for being trans. In her video for the The National Women's Law Center's "Equal Payback Project," the comedian aimed to highlight the gender-based wage disparity by proposing a facetious way to close the gap for herself: having surge...
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