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Dave Chappelle embraces being cancelled in transgender row
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news.abs-cbn.comOct 09 2021 10:16 AMLOS ANGELES -- US comedian Dave Chappelle has thumbed his nose at critics who accuse him of transphobia, telling a packed Los Angeles performance: "If this is what being canceled is like, I love it."The stand-up has courted controversy with his latest Netflix special "The Closer" in which he asserts "gender is a fact.""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 said in the show, which is riding high on Netflix's chart after its launch this week.Chappelle also declared himself "Team TERF" -- an acronym for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists, who believe that womanhood is biologically fixed -- and defended "Harry Potter" author.
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