"Trans lives matter", can be read on a sign, "truth is not transphobia" on another and "jokes are funny" on a third.
Many different sides of the debate on trans and freedom of speech gathered on Wednesday outside the Netflix office in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
The culture war has escalated considerably in recent weeks, since Netflix released comedian Dave Chapelle's latest comedy special The Closer.
Chappelle says, among other things, that "gender is a fact" and compares "black face" with trans.
He also told in person about a close friend who was transgender but who committed suicide before the special came out.
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has defended the comedy show, but has also said that he "made a mistake" in handling the protests.
"I would respond with more humanism," he has previously told Variety.
Wants to change the corporate culture
Last week, Netflix fired an employee who identifies as trans and who helped organize Wednesday's demonstration.
According to the company, the employee had leaked "confidential and commercially sensitive data".
On Wednesday, a group of Netflix employees called The Trans Employee Resource Group organized a demonstrative "walk-out" and presented a list of demands to the company.
They demand to be taken seriously within the company, that transgender people are hired in managerial positions and that more money and marketing is spent on LGBTQ-friendly content that tells about transgender people in an authentic way.
They also want Dave Chappelle's comedy special to be accompanied by a warning text that says the jokes are transphobic.
David Huggard, better known as Eureka O'Hara from RuPaul's Drag Race, says in a speech to the crowd that Chapelle's jokes advocate trans hatred and discrimination.
- It is not about you laughing but that you laugh at our pain and it affects people negatively, says Huggard.
"You can not demonstrate against jokes"
Even counter-protesters demonstrated outside Netflix headquarters.
One of them is the comedian Vito Gesualdi.
He wears the sign "Jokes are funny" and says that he mostly jokes about Santa Claus and sweets.
He still wants to protest against what he considers to be an absurd censorship mentality that affects smaller comedians who can be stopped for small mistakes.
- You can not demonstrate against jokes!
What are you doing?
You can get angry or offended by a joke and talk about it but to come out here and say "no more jokes", come on!
This is America and we take freedom of speech very seriously.
We need to let people say what they want to say.
If you are angry, you can make your own comedy special and post it on the internet.
This is a bit too much for a guy who just made a few jokes, says Gesualdi.