The Closer, which dropped Tuesday, Chappelle defends J.K. Rowling’s anti-transgender remarks, then proclaims, “I’m Team TERF!” — an acronym for trans-exclusionary radical feminists.“Gender is a fact,” he says. “Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth.
That is a fact.” He goes on to say that trans women are women, but their genitals aren’t like those of cisgender women.“Chappelle’s anti-trans jokes have often boiled down to human anatomy, which shows how unnuanced his views are on the subject,” Daily Beast critic Marlow Stern wrote.He also claimed he once beat up a butch lesbian who punched him and that she tried to sell the story to TMZ.