diff --git a/src/requests/adapters.py b/src/requests/adapters.py
index 670c92767c..90f0be34b1 100644
--- a/src/requests/adapters.py
+++ b/src/requests/adapters.py
@@ -368,6 +368,10 @@ def build_response(self, req, resp):
         response.request = req
         response.connection = self
 
+        if "transfer-encoding" in response.headers and "chunked" in response.headers["transfer-encoding"]:
+            if "content-length" in response.headers:
+                response.headers.pop("content-length")
+
         return response
 
     def build_connection_pool_key_attributes(self, request, verify, cert=None):