Controversial 'joke' | Netflix suspends trans worker who crashed exec meeting to protest comedy show

Netflix has reportedly suspended a band of employees who crashed an executive meeting to protest a new comedy special containing a joke about transgender people.

As reported by Variety, the streaming giant has been hit with claims that it suspended three workers, one of whom identifies as trans, for showing up to a virtual quarterly business review – a meeting attended by the firm’s top 500 employees.

According to the publication, Terra Field – a senior software engineer who identifies as queer and trans, and two other employees who were not invited to the virtual gathering which took place last week, were suspended by the company after attending the meeting without permission.

They allegedly objected to Netflix’s decision to air a new special from comedian Dave Chappelle, in which he voiced support for the ‘TERF’ movement (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) and added: “Gender is a fact.”