Jaclyn Moore, co-showrunner of the just recently concluded Netflix series Dear White People, who transitioned throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, tweeted, “I will not deal with [Netflix] as long as they continue to put out and benefit from blatantly and precariously transphobic material.”
“I never loved Dave’s trans material before but this time it felt different. This is the first time I felt like, ‘Oh, people are laughing at this joke and they’re agreeing that it’s absurd to call me a woman,'” Moore just recently informed Variety “Look, I have no desire to cancel Dave Chappelle. He should make whatever he wants to make but I will say to Netflix, it’s not like this was a live special.”
The author included, “People like to say, ‘Oh, it’s just a joke.’ I get the joke. By the way there’s a lot that’s funny about being trans, but the idea that it’s funny that we call ourselves women, which was the subtext of a lot of those jokes, is not one of them. It’s actually the same language used by people who seek to hurt us.”
