Real Time with Bill Maher is an HBO talk show hosted by Bill Maher that has consistently featured anti-trans guests and covered trans topics in a mocking and intellectually dishonest way. Maher has had a far smaller number of trans-supportive guests and only a few trans and gender diverse guests.
Guests
Maher has platformed many anti-trans figures over the course of the HBO show, including:
- Scott Adams
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Steve Bannon
- Roseanne Barr
- Andrew Breitbart
- Pat Buchanan
- Tucker Carlson *
- Adam Carolla
- Jonathan Chait
- John Cleese
- Kellyanne Conway *
- Ann Coulter **
- Dan Crenshaw
- Ted Cruz
- Dinesh D’Souza
- Richard Dawkins *
- Ron DeSantis
- Ross Douthat *
- Niall Ferguson
- Caitlin Flanagan *
- Kmele Foster
- David French
- David Frum ***
- Nick Gillespie
- Jonah Goldberg
- Michelle Goldberg
- Glenn Greenwald
- Jonathan Haidt
- Sam Harris *
- Katie Herzog
- Heather Heying
- Mike Huckabee *
- Megyn Kelly
- Tomi Lahren
- Glenn Loury
- Greg Lukianoff
- Michelle Malkin
- John McWhorter *
- Dennis Miller
- Piers Morgan
- Douglas Murray
- Elon Musk
- Maajid Nawaz
- Camille Paglia
- Pamela Paul
- Jordan B. Peterson
- Steven Pinker
- John Podhoretz
- Gerald Posner
- Dennis Prager
- Vivek Ramaswamy
- Ralph Reed *
- Hanna Rosin
- Dave Rubin
- Rick Santorum
- Dan Savage ***
- Phyllis Schlafly
- Ben Shapiro
- Michael Shellenberger
- Peter Singer
- Michael Smerconish
- Debra Soh
- Christina Hoff Sommers
- Bret Stephens **
- Andrew Sullivan ****
- Matt Taibbi ***
- Chloe Valdary
- Bret Weinstein
- Bari Weiss *
- Matt Welch
- Milo Yiannopoulos
Key:
- [no asterisk] >5 appearances
- * = 5+ appearances
- ** = 10+ appearances
- *** = 15+ appearances
- **** = 20+ appearances
Maher has had some trans guests, including:
- Janet Mock
- Eddie Izzard
- Elliot Page
- Chaz Bono
Resources
HBO (hbomax.com)
- Real Time with Bill Maher
- hbomax.com/shows/real-time-with-bill-maher/abc00905-6a23-46f6-a531-20214bb06f37
- previous urls:
- hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher
- max.com/real-time-with-bill-maher
- hbo.com/billmaher
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
IMDb (imdb.com)
- Real Time with Bill Maher
- imdb.com/title/tt0350448
X/Twitter (x.com)
YouTube (youtube.com)
reddit (reddit.com)
Instagram (instagram.com)
Bill Maher (billmaher.com)
- Headlines
- billmaher.com/headlines/politics-headlines