<p>&#8220;Friends&#8221; co-creator Marta Kauffman racked up another stop on her apology tour, saying in a soon-to-air interview that she regretted &#8220;misgendering&#8221; one of the characters on the show.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1336845/friends-co-creator-regrets-the-handling-of-chandler-s-trans-parent">E! News</a>, Kauffman explained in a <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct37m2">BBC interview</a> — scheduled to air July 11 — that her concern focused on Chandler Bing (played by actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/courteney-cox-says-she-doesnt-remember-most-of-friends-except-this-one-trip-to-vegas/">Matthew Perry</a>), one of the main six characters, who had a biological father who was a transgender woman (played by legendary actress Kathleen Turner). The character went by the stage name Helena Handbasket and headlined a drag burlesque show in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>Her regret, she said, was that throughout the run of the show whenever Helena was mentioned, she was routinely described as &#8220;Chandler&#8217;s father&#8221; and referred to with he/him pronouns. One episode was even titled &#8220;The One with Chandler&#8217;s Dad.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We kept referring to [Helena] as &#8216;Chandler&#8217;s father,&#8217; even though Chandler&#8217;s father was trans,&#8221; she said, noting that &#8220;mother&#8221; might have been more appropriate given Helena&#8217;s gender identity.</p>
<p>&#8220;Pronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn&#8217;t refer to that character as ‘she.&#8217; That was a mistake,&#8221; Kauffman explained.</p>
<p>Kauffman voiced similar regret in another <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/friends-creator-pledges-4-million-to-atone-for-lack-of-black-leads-on-the-series/">recent interview</a> over the lack of racial diversity on the show. She told the Los Angeles Times that she planned to make reparations, of sorts — donating $4 million to her alma mater Brandeis University&#8217;s African American Studies department to create an endowed professorship. Her hope is that it will help to make up for her failure to push for a more racially diverse cast.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve learned a lot in the last 20 years. Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It&#8217;s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I&#8217;m embarrassed that I didn&#8217;t know better 25 years ago,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/friends-marta-kauffman-apologizes-misgendering-chandler-bings-trans-parent?intcmp=tw_fnc">Fox News</a> reported that Kauffman also took responsibility for what she said was her role in contributing to systemic racism in the entertainment industry, saying, &#8220;I was unaware of that, which makes me feel stupid. That was a very valid, extremely difficult criticism which still&#8230; I get emotional about.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If I knew then what I know now, there are certain things I would have changed. But I didn&#8217;t know them and I have since learned,&#8221; she added.</p>

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