Ricky Gervais Taunts Trans People in New Netflix Special, While Claiming He Supports Trans Rights
thewrap.comare ladies — look at their pronouns! What about this person isn’t a lady?’ ‘Well, his penis.’ ‘Her penis, you f—ing bigot!’ ‘What if he rapes me?’ ‘What if she rapes you, you f—ing TERF whore?'”Gervais marks the second comedian in recent months to have a special on Netflix with jokes about trans people, following Dave Chappelle.
During his special, Gervais addresses recent reactions to insensitive jokes, referring not to Chappelle, but to Kevin Hart dropping out as Oscars host in 2018 for his own past homophobic tweets.
And in that joke, Gervais doubled down on his comments toward trans people.“You can’t predict what will be offensive in the future,” Gervais said. “You don’t know who the dominant mob will be.
Like, the worst thing you can say today — get you canceled on Twitter, death threats — the worst thing you can say today is, ‘Women don’t have penises,’ right?
