The Closer, which was released on Netflix on 5 October, has faced widespread criticism from the LGBTQ+ community because of the remarks it features. “They cancelled J.K.
Rowling — my God. [Effectively] she said gender was a fact, the trans community got mad as shit, they started calling her a TERF,” Chappelle says.
The term “TERF” references “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” whose views are widely seen as transphobic. After making jokes about the bodies of trans women, he goes on to say: “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.” Despite this, Chappelle then claims that he is “not saying that to say trans women aren’t women” and