Transgender comedian BACKS Dave Chappelle after controversial Netflix special

A transgender comedian has expressed support for Dave Chapelle after his jokes targeting trans people in a new Netflix special drew strong backlash.

Flame Monroe, a stand-up from Chicago, told CNN that she 'absolutely [does] believe that you should be able to make jokes about trans folks' in an interview published on Sunday.

Chappelle and Netflix drew harsh criticism over his new special, The Closer, in which he crudely compared the genitals of trans women to plant-based meat alternatives and declared that he was 'team TERF,' a reference to feminists who reject the identity of trans women.

While many trans comedians have spoken out to condemn Chappelle, equating his remarks to hate speech and violence, Monroe had a different take, arguing that his act was funny and that trans people should be willing to be the butt of a joke.

'As a trans person and a comedian, we mostly crack jokes about who we are and how we identify in my experience, and I'm only speaking for me,' she told CNN. 

'You can't ask for inclusion 24/7 and then conveniently want to be excluded because some truths are being told in a comedic fashion about your community.' 

Monroe, who is one of the few trans comedians to be featured in a Netflix special, as part of Tiffany Haddish's They Ready series, also spoke to CNN in an on-air interview last week.

'It made me scream out loud laughing,' she said of Chappelle's act. 'Because I'm a comedian, I'm a human, and I know who Dave Chappelle is and what Dave Chappelle is. He's a comedian.'

Monroe said that even if some of the remarks did make her gasp, 'when it's the truth, and it's funny, it's just humor. It's laughter, we keep missing that.'

'We have to be able to take, as grown people, and stop being so sensitized in this world. It's only a joke. Nobody lost their

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