{"id":1048020,"date":"2021-11-23T11:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048020"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:28:39","slug":"transgender-netflix-employee-who-protested-dave-chappelle-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/transgender-netflix-employee-who-protested-dave-chappelle-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender Netflix Employee Who Protested Dave Chappelle Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftransgender-netflix-employee-who-protested-dave-chappelle-resigns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048020&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The transgender Netflix employee who helped organize last month\u2019s employee walkout in protest of comedian Dave Chappelle has resigned, saying \u201cI am relieved to have closure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Terra Field, a male-to-female transgender, left the company effective Sunday, according to a copy of the resignation <a href=\"https:\/\/rainofterra.com\/my-resignation-from-netflix-458a2c01d08d\">letter<\/a> that Field posted online. &nbsp;Field, who worked as a software engineer at Netflix, didn\u2019t specify the reason for the departure, but said the firing of trans co-worker B. Pagels-Minor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/15\/netflix-fires-employee-for-leaking-confidential-data-on-dave-chappelle-special\/\">allegedly leaking internal data<\/a> to a reporter was a catalyst.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShortly after B. was fired for something I did not and do not believe they [sic] did, I made a decision: sink or swim, I was going to walk side by side with B. as they [sic] had for so many of us,\u201d Field wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Field said Pagels-Minor gave birth to a son last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are both happy and healthy, and for me that is the note that I\u2019d like this chapter of my life to end on. I want to focus on the joy, not the heartache.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Field still claims to have been suspended from work last month after tweeting criticism of Chappelle\u2019s Netflix special <em>The Closer.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18871586\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236008977-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18871586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236008977-1.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People rally in support of the Netflix transgender walkout in Los Angeles, California on October 20, 2021. (FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the Twitter thread, Field accused Chappelle of&nbsp;attacking \u201cthe trans community, and the very validity of transness \u2014 all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.221538461538\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I work at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netflix?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@netflix<\/a>. Yesterday we launched another Chappelle special where he attacks the trans community, and the very validity of transness \u2013 all while trying to pit us against other marginalized groups. You&#8217;re going to hear a lot of talk about &#8220;offense&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We are not offended <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Terra Field (@RainofTerra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RainofTerra\/status\/1445914236668895236?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Netflix has denied suspending employees for publicly criticizing Chappelle.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Chappelle is currently on an&nbsp;11-city tour of screenings for his new documentary, <em>Untitled<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The comedian told a string of transgender jokes during an engagement Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/dave-chappelle-is-back-to-making-transphobic-jokes-at-madison-square-garden-event\">report<\/a> from The Daily Beast. The jokes reportedly included a running gag about trans pronouns and&nbsp;claiming to identify as a woman to get a better spot in jail.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transgender Netflix employee who helped organize last month\u2019s employee walkout in protest of comedian Dave Chappelle has resigned, saying \u201cI am relieved to have closure.\u201d Terra Field, a male-to-female &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}