Comedian Dave Chappelle has offered to meet with the transgender community and thanked Netflix for standing by him after he was accused of stoking transphobia with his stand-up special The Closer.
Chappelle said he is "more than willing" to meet LGBTQ groups after his show sparked protests outside the streaming giant's Los Angeles office last week, at which demonstrators said the comedian had refused to speak with them.
"That is not true. If they had invited me, I would have accepted it, although I am confused about what we would be speaking about," Chappelle said in a video from a recent show in Nashville that he posted to Instagram Monday.
"I said what I said, and boy, I heard what you said. My God, how could I not?"
Chappelle provoked anger with a stand-up routine released on Netflix earlier this month in which he asserted that "gender is a fact" and accused the community of being "too sensitive."
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