Rejecting feedback made by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos in protection of Dave Chappelle’s newest comedy particular, The Closer, quite a few the streaming platforms transgender workers are planning a company-wide walkout on October twentieth.

In the wake of the discharge of the brand new particular—which options incendiary commentary on the LGBTQ+ group and Chappelle’s personal proclamation that he identifies as a “trans-exclusionary radical feminist”— The Verge obtained an inside organizing message posted by a pacesetter of Netflix’s trans worker useful resource group that takes the platform to job for failing to fulfill its mission of making inclusive, universally fulfilling content material.

“Trans Lives Matter. Trans Rights Matter. And as an organization, Netflix has continually failed to show deep care in our mission to Entertain the World by repeatedly releasing content that harms the Trans community and continually failing to create content that represents and uplifts Trans content,” the ERG message reads partially. “We can and must do better!”

Stirrings of an imminent walkout come simply at some point after it was reported that Netflix had suspended three workers for dropping in on a gathering with out authorization in the course of the platform’s two-day-long quarterly enterprise assessment. At the occasion, Sarandos briefed the corporate’s prime 500 workers on how they need to reply to workers and expertise expressing considerations over Chappelle’s remarks. One of the workers in query—the trans and queer-identifying Terra Field, who works as a senior software program engineer for the corporate—reported that as of Tuesday night time, she had been reinstated on the firm.

“Netflix has reinstated me after finding that there was no ill-intent in my attending the QBR meeting,” Field wrote in a Tuesday night tweet. “I’ve included the statement I requested below. I’m going to take a few days off to decompress and try to figure out where I’m at. At the very least, I feel vindicated.”

Prior to being reinstated, Field had unspooled the damaging implications of Chappelle’s commentary in a now-viral Twitter thread, laying out the methods the “jokes” could possibly be interpreted as straight dangerous to the transgender group.

“Promoting TERF ideology (which is what we did by giving it a platform yesterday) directly harms trans people, it is not some neutral act,” Field wrote within the sequence of tweets. “This is not an argument with two sides. It is an argument with trans people who want to be alive and people who don’t want us to be.”

Despite the truth that Chappelle’s anti-trans sentiments drew fierce criticisms on-line within the wake of the particular’s launch, Sarandos had seemingly fanned the flames of concern with an inside memo that Variety obtained a duplicate of.

“Chapelle is one of the most popular stand-up comedians today, and we have a long-standing deal with him,” Sarandos wrote to Netflix staffers. “His last special “Sticks & Stones,” additionally controversial, is our most watched, stickiest and most award successful stand-up particular up to now.”

“As with our other talent, we work hard to support their creative freedom — even though this means there will always be content on Netflix some people believe is harmful,” he added.

The organizing message posted by Netflix’s trans ERG group appeared to particularly take difficulty with the way in which that a few of the firm’s company communications appeared to suggest that the streamer’s LGBTQ-identifying workers have been taking a short-sighted view of the controversy.

“As we’ve discussed through Slack, email, text, and everything in between our leadership has shown us they do not uphold the values to which we are held,” the message reads. “Between the numerous emails and non-answers that have been given, we have been told explicitly that we somehow cannot understand the nuance of certain content.”