LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD says the new show violates the streaming giant’s policy against content designed to incite hate or violence.
, Ricky Gervais ridicules transgender women in his new Netflix comedy special. As with Chappelle, the British stand-up quickly drew backlash for what an LGBTQ advocacy group called “anti-trans rants.”, released Tuesday on the streaming service, Gervais jokes about “old-fashioned women. They’re the ones with wombs.”
In the hour-long special, Gervais defended his remarks as equal-opportunity humour and not a reflection of his views on trans or other rights. But transgender and LGBTQ defenders fired back, with GLAAD asserting that the special violates a Netflix policy against content designed to incite hate or violence.
Alexis Rangel, policy counsel with the National Center for Transgender Equality, said that jokes based on “dehumanising myths about transgender people” disregard how such falsehoods fuel hatred and anti-trans violence, especially for trans youngsters. In an Instagram video last October, Chappelle blamed the media for framing the dispute as him versus the LGBTQ community, and said the controversy was “about corporate interest and what I can say and what I cannot say.”Gervais is familiar to audiences as a repeat host of the Golden Globes. He’s an Emmy-winner for his role in the comedy, based on the original British series of the same name that he co-created.special, in which he also targets Asians and the Holocaust, among others.
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