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The Don Lemon Show

Flame Monroe on Trans Rights, Project 2025, & Dave Chappelle

The Don Lemon Show

18Hundred LLC.

Society & Culture, News

3.8659 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Don Lemon sits down with Comedian and actress Flame Monroe for a no holds barred discussion about Flame's success and the transgender community. They discuss the controversies around transgender athletes, the dangers of Project 2025, and Flame's work with Dave Chappelle.  WATCH & Subscribe on YouTube @TheDonLemonShow! Listen on Apple, Spotify and iHeart Radio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Every runner knows the moment when everything clicks.

0:04.0

When your legs lock into a rhythm, the aches float away and doubts fade.

0:08.0

Replaced by a feeling of euphoria.

0:12.0

It's why you lace up at dawn.

0:15.0

Why a little rain doesn't stop you.

0:17.0

Why one run turns into a habit.

0:24.3

So next time you go for a run, chase that runs high.

0:28.1

Learn more about running and go wild at puma.com.

0:33.6

Sometimes we put ourselves in precarious positions when we know better.

0:35.5

Sometimes that's what we do.

0:38.4

Not only as trans people, but as black people. It's 24, though. A lot of the youth are only seeing the popular side of being trans and who they don't

0:45.0

see the dark side. And then when someone tries to explain to them that there's two sides to

0:49.7

everything, they don't want to hear that. I'm black and I'm trans, but I'm, and I'm an American,

0:54.7

and I'm a dad, and I'm a, I'm a parent, I'm a son, I've been a prisoner, I've been a hooker

1:00.0

on the streets. All right, but then do you have any issue with anything that Dave says about

1:04.5

the trans community? I go and work for Dave Chappelle, who treated me like a damn queen, Don. Let me tell you how this man rolled up, and everybody on his camp made me not feel like a trans person.

1:15.6

I was just treated as another common.

1:17.9

Feel that you are equal to a biological woman.

1:20.4

Absolutely not.

1:21.1

I feel that I am a trans woman, which makes me super special.

1:25.9

I'm an American.

1:26.6

That is our right.

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