A petition has also been created calling on the show to apologise for the performance and remove the act from future shows.

Currently approaching 500 signatures, it questions whether NBC’s support for the LGBT community is “just lip service” and asks the network to do “one of two things“:

“One option is to remove the video, provide an on-air apology to the transgender men, women, and children that they allowed to be told are less than human, and only good for the brunt of a joke; and not have Mr. Jessel on the show again. The other option would be to stop the lip service, and admit that human rights and dignity are nothing when enough money can be brought in.”