I must say, when I finally mustered up the courage to say I wanted to get top surgery last summer I had no idea that by the time March 2022 rolled around the country would be so vocal about their opinions on this life-saving surgery or targeting these very surgeries with discriminatory and hateful laws. People with no experience coming to terms with their gender or sexuality seem to have a lot of dumb opinions on the matter. Then, Ricky Gervais decided to jump in the fray with transphobic jokes in his new Netflix special, SuperNature. In the past few weeks, the ever-ignorant Bill Maher has decided his cisgender heterosexual thoughts on gender-affirming care are necessary to share with the world. Even after all the backlash, Chappelle has doubled down and continues to make horrendous anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ jokes. To refresh your memory, in October 2021, Dave Chappelle’s gross and hateful comments in his Netflix special The Closer caused an uproar within the LGBTQ community and Netflix’s own trans workers staged a walkout.
