Will & Harper | Ferrell has it right: Education is the answer for employers on trans inclusion

A new Netflix documentary is coming to our screens next week. It is powerful, wildly amusing, and features one of the world’s most beloved comedians and actors, Will Ferrell, on a journey of education about what it means to be transgender.

In Will & Harper, Ferrell is joined by his best friend Harper Steele, an award-winning writer he met on Saturday Night Live nearly thirty years ago. Steele embarked on a gender transition in 2022, coming out as a trans woman to Ferrell and her friends at the age of 61.

“Look, I'm not a very political person, but just by nature of being trans, I'm now a political person in a way,” she wrote to her friends. “I just ask you as my friends to stand up for me. Do your best to, if I'm misgendered, just speak up on my behalf, that's all I ask.”

Ferrell, recognizing his diminuitive knowledge about the trans community and what it means to be a trans person in America in 2024, decided the best thing to do would be to invite Steele on a road trip journey of education, self-discovery, and friendship.