On Wednesday, a group of Netflix employees referring to themselves as Team Trans staged a walkout to rally behind their “list of asks” of cultural and institutional changes for the company. In no way is this demonstration an attack on Netflix; in fact, CEO and Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos and the rest of Netflix’s brass should see this as a golden opportunity to transform the streaming behemoth into a company that truly champions everyone.
Yesterday, the list of asks from Netflix’s Trans* Employee Resource Group (ERG) was made public. The document’s focus is on making sure the harm caused by Dave Chappelle’s The Closer and its preceding specials never happens again.
