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Netflix’s trans employees and their allies to stage walkout in protest of Dave Chappelle
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On 20 October, two weeks after Chappelle’s new comedy special debuted on Netflix, members of the Netflix employee resource group Trans* and their allies will take a “day of rest”.
This is in response to The Closer, which faced immediate backlash due to the transphobic 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 during the episode.
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.
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