(CNN)Jaclyn Moore, writer and showrunner connected the bid "Dear White People" and the upcoming reboot of "Queer arsenic Folk," is boycotting Netflix aft the streaming work released Dave Chappelle's latest stand-up special, which contained a slew of jokes aimed astatine transgender people.
Chappelle's special, "The Closer," includes respective minutes of jokes astir trans radical and the LGBTQ community. At 1 point, Chappelle said helium was "team TERF," referencing the word for "trans-exclusionary extremist feminist," and joked astir trans women's genitalia. He besides said that "gender is simply a fact" and told a communicative astir beating up a lesbian woman.
The comedian made the jokes during a historical twelvemonth for anti-transgender legislation, introduced successful astatine slightest 33 states, and little than a twelvemonth aft a record-high fig of transgender people, astir of them trans women of color, were killed.
Moore, whose Netflix series "Dear White People" has conscionable concluded its run, tweeted that she "will not enactment with [Netflix] arsenic agelong arsenic they proceed to enactment retired and nett from blatantly and dangerously homophobic content."
CNN contacted Netflix for remark connected Moore's boycott and disapproval of Chappelle's peculiar and is waiting to perceive back. CNN has besides contacted a typical for Chappelle and is awaiting comment.
Moore transitioned during accumulation of the show's past season, she told the Wrap, and was met with respect and enactment from her colleagues. But watching Chappelle's astir caller peculiar drove her to sever her narration with the streaming service, she said. She tweeted that Chappelle was erstwhile "one of [her] heroes," but the jokes helium made successful the peculiar "have existent satellite consequences" for trans women, including unit and hatred, she said.
"So erstwhile helium says radical should beryllium huffy a trans pistillate won a 'Woman of the Year' grant ... When helium misgenders... When helium says helium should've told that parent her girl WAS A DUDE ... I conscionable can't ... I can't beryllium a portion of a institution that thinks that's worthy putting retired and celebrating," she said.
Moore told Variety successful an exclusive interrogation that the connection Chappelle utilized successful the peculiar is "the aforesaid connection utilized by radical who question to wounded us."
"I bash judge successful state of speech," she told Variety's Marc Malkin. "I truly do. But I person the state of code to accidental that somebody's code bothers me, and I don't privation to enactment with a institution that promotes that speech. It's dangerous. It's unsafe language. I can't accidental it immoderate clearer."
GLAAD, the LGBTQ media advocacy organization, besides condemned the comments helium made successful "The Closer."
"Dave Chappelle's marque has go synonymous with ridiculing trans radical and different marginalized communities," GLAAD tweeted this week. "Negative reviews and viewers loudly condemning his latest peculiar is simply a connection to the manufacture that audiences don't enactment platforming anti-LGBTQ diatribes. We agree."
While Netflix hasn't commented, 1 of its employees, Terra Field, a elder bundle engineer, tweeted that the contented with Chappelle's peculiar was that helium ridiculed the beingness of trans people.
"Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a level yesterday) straight harms trans people, it is not immoderate neutral act," Field tweeted. "This is not an statement with 2 sides. It is an statement with trans radical who privation to beryllium live and radical who don't privation america to be."
Field ended her thread with the names of 38 trans and sex non-conforming people who've been killed passim 2021.
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