Dave Chappelle has released a new Netflix special, The Dreamer, which is full of jokes about the trans community and disabled people.
“I love punching down!” he tells the audience, in a one-hour show that landed on the streaming service today (31 December).
It’s his seventh special for Netflix and comes two years after his last one, the highly controversial release The Closer.
That programme was criticised for its relentless jokes about the trans community, and Chappelle revisits the topic in his new show.
He tells jokes about trans women in prison, and about trans people “pretending” to be somebody they are not.
I agree, that’s why it’s important to get the info out there. There’s so much scare-mongering involved over a minority of people who just want to be able to live their lives normally. If it can help you and the other people who might stumble across it to hear that science actually supports protecting trans people, with the evidence to back it up, then it’s worth writing it out.