Transgender Fact Checker For John Oliver Showed Obvious Bias, Purposely Misrepresented Information

As it turns out, Sunday's episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver was even more disingenuous than we originally thought.

After publishing our response to the British comedian's 42-minute sanctimonious marathon on trans athletes in women’s sports, we learned something interesting: the fact-checker for Last Week Tonight is a trans-identifying male named DM "Dee" Brent.

In other words, the person tasked with verifying whether women’s concerns about fairness and safety are "based in fact" is someone with a personal stake in denying those concerns altogether. That's like hiring a lobbyist for Big Tobacco to fact-check a segment on lung cancer.

So it's no wonder the episode felt more like an activist manifesto than a balanced discussion. When your fact-checker is already committed to the ideology you’re pushing, objectivity isn’t just compromised — it’s out the window.

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Prior to the show’s airing, Brent reached out to women’s rights groups, United Nations Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem and media outlets (including OutKick) with a series of slanted, leading questions. Despite receiving extensive, thoughtful and accurate responses from these sources, the show’s writers deliberately distorted that information to fit the narrative they planned to push all along.

One glaring example of this deliberate distortion comes from Oliver’s attempt to discredit a 2024 United Nations report that found nearly 900 medals had been taken by trans-identifying males in women’s sports. (That number is much higher now, by the way.)

On the show, Oliver sneers, "We looked at that report, and it turns out first, it wasn't produced by the UN. It was submitted to it