—apologized in an interview about the way the show handled a transgender character, one week after she pledged a donation to make up for the series’ lack of racial diversity.... [+]In a teaser released Tuesday for an upcoming interview with the BBC World Service’sit was a “mistake” not to refer to Chandler Bing’s parent—a transgender woman formerly named Charles—using “she” pronouns, saying “pronouns were not yet something that I understood.
In the new interview with the BBC, which airs July 11, Kauffman also said she was “guilty” of not having “enough representation of Black people” on the show and was “clearly part of systemic racism in our business.”she pledged $4 million to Brandeis University’s African and African American studies department for an endowed professorship, after reckoning with the way the show missed diverse representation.