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Disheartened that he was continuing this attack on the trans community. i think we love to say oh, comedians are just telling jokes. like thats what they do. but i think it ignores the fact that they have platforms and those platforms, the rhetoric that they espouse has real world consequences. for a lot of cis-gender straight people who dont know trans people in their everyday life, their first interaction with trans people is through the media. its through what they watch, through what they re...

And non-conforming folks have been murdered this year. we will continue to see more pieces of legislation put forth that actually impact young trans people. and so i think thats also the other thing too, is that people get so fixated on the adjective of trans, right? the trans part of it. but we are human. and i think that chappelle did a sloppy job of speaking to our humanity. >> yeah. there is a part in there where he talks about his friend, right? and he said his friend said, you know, im not...

Straight man he could have easily used his platform to talk about the tensions that exist within our own community as black folks, right? i think that theres a way that he and other black cis-gender straight comedians kind of gloss over the fact that black lgbtq plus folks exist. so its easy for him to paint the lgbtq plus community as purely just the white community. there are all these ideas that queerness and transness and all these different things are white inventions. and thats just not tr...