Dave Chappelle’s inflammatory statements regarding the trans community have been addressed by Channing Tatum.

Tatum voluntarily joined the discussion over Dave Chappelle’s current Netflix comedy special, “The Closer,” which has sparked controversy.

Chappelle’s statements regarding transgender people in the show, particularly his declaration that he was “team Terf” [trans-exclusionary radical feminist], had sparked widespread outrage.

After a big money contract with Netflix, some are calling his special “troubling and unfunny.”

Tatum shared a video of Chappelle’s 2019 address at the Kennedy Center to accept the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which was first released by comic D.L. Hughley, on the Instagram stories section of his verified Instagram account.

Tatum chimed in with his own remark.

“I understand that Dave is a very dangerous person to talk about at the moment. I understand and hate that he has hurt so many people with things he has said,” Tatum began.

The 41-year-old added: “Any human can hurt someone (usually cause they’re hurt) but any human can heal and heal others just the same. This little piece healed me back in the day. I can’t forget that.”

“And that’s why I love my art form, because I understand every practitioner of it. Whether I agree with them or not, I know where they’re coming from. They want to be heard. They’ve got something to say. There’s something they noticed. They just want to be understood. I loved this genre. It saved my life.”

Chappelle offered advice from his mother when he was a “sensitive” and “soft” child in the video. “Be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are,” she said.

The camera then turned to his mother, who was mouthing along with him word for word. “I talk this s**t like a lion,” Chappelle says. “I’m not afraid of any of you. When it comes word to word, I will gab with the best of them, just so I can chill and be me.”

He then discusses his passion for humor, saying that he “understood every practitioner” and that it “saved my life.”

In the video, the comedian explains, “I was a soft kid. I was sensitive, I’d cry easy and I would be scared to fistfight. My mother used to tell me this thing… ’Son, sometimes you have to be a lion so you can be the lamb you really are.’ I talk this s—t like a lion. I’m not afraid of any of you. When it comes word to word, I will gab with the best of them, just so I can chill and be me.”

“This does not excuse anything hurtful tho to be clear,” Tatum said on Instagram.

Chappelle has remained unfazed, openly declaring, “If this is what being canceled is like, I love it.”

In “The Closer,” Chappelle states, “Gender is a fact.” “Every human being in this room, every human being on Earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on Earth. That is a fact.”

One of the gags from “The Closer” that enraged viewers was one in which the comic appeared to support J.K. Rowling, the author of “Harry Potter,” who had previously made statements dismissing transgender women from feminism discussions.

“They look at transgender women the way we Blacks look at Blackface,” Chappelle explains. “They go ‘oh, this b—- is doing an impression of me!’”

Jaclyn Moore, the showrunner of the successful Netflix comedy Dear White People, has announced a boycott of the streaming service because it “promotes and profits from dangerous transphobic content.”

Hannah Gadsby, whose hit Netflix comedy special Nanette premiered in 2018, directed her rage towards Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos.

“I have to deal with even more of the hate and anger that Dave Chappelle’s fans like to unleash on me every time Dave gets 20 million dollars to process his emotionally stunted partial world view,” Gadsby said on Instagram after Sarandos cited him as an example of varied programming on Netflix.

“F**k you and your amoral algorithm cult,” she continued. “I do s***s with more backbone than you.”