Posted on 07/14/2023 6:32:23 AM PDT by lowbridge
CNN anchor Kate Bolduan apologized Wednesday after a correspondent allegedly "misgendered" trans woman and biological male Dylan Mulvaney.
Multiple LGBTQ Twitter activists ripped a Tuesday segment on "CNN News Central" during which Ryan Young reported on the ongoing backlash against Bud Light for making the trans activist a brand spokesperson. After Young referred to Mulvaney as "he" twice, Bolduan took a moment on air the next day to say, "We apologize for that error."
According to the 26-year-old activist’s social media pages, Mulvaney prefers to go by "she/they" pronouns.
Young’s report included interviews with people on the streets of Nashville, Tennessee, and Chicago, Illinois, for their comments on the Bud Light controversy, which has been going on ever since the brand partnered with Mulvaney in April.
While talking about his interviews, Young "misgendered" Mulvaney twice. He said, "One bar was telling us they’re not going to serve [Bud Light] because they don’t like the way Dylan Mulvaney was treated after this whole controversy started. He, of course, is the transgender person they were gonna sponsor and go along with Bud Light. They didn’t like how Bud Light didn’t stand by him after all this."
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Liberals on Twitter were outraged at CNN for airing Young's segment.
Left-wing journalist Mike Sington shared the offending portion of the segment and claimed, "CNN correspondent Ryan Young misgenders Dylan Mulvaney twice during report, calls her ‘he’ and ‘him’."
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During her sign-off for Wednesday’s "CNN News Central," Bolduan stated, "Yesterday in a segment about transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, who was featured in Bud Light’s recent campaign, she was mistakenly referred to by the wrong pronoun. And CNN aims to honor individuals’ ways of identifying themselves and we apologize for that error."
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Dylan is the one mis-gendering...No our problem. And apologize?? ridiculous...
How did we get here? I believe we’re worse than the Weimar Republic was....other than the “inflation” thing.
There’s way too much apologizing goin’ on out dare. Apologies don’t mean anything anymore. They’re a joke.
Mulvaney’s wishful thinking doesn’t make him female. Just like my wishful thinking doesn’t make me a billionaire.
“That’s a Man, Baby!”
“That’s a Man, Baby!”
Don’t let them control language.
LGBT-ers can m**turbate on words all that they want. For the rest of us who actually think, anyone who plays with genders has a mental problem. A big one. So, they can deal with it, STFU, and leave the rest of us alone.
Growing up I had to deal with a sibling who was probably crazy. A fight could erupt about anything. Somebody said X and she’d go ape$hit crazy saying it was Y. Nobody wanted to deal with ape$hit crazy so she won everything she wanted, desert, some object, a “discussion,” where we were going, what we’d have for dinner. It never ended. There was no logic. There was no reasoning. It was either an uneasy peace that could explode at any moment or it was full on verbal and physical assault. This is the Left today. They get away with what they do because the rest of us have lives to live and things to do. We can’t dedicate every erg of energy to fight off ape$hit crazy when we don’t give a darned about whatever it is that’s provoking the outburst. It’s wrong that we allow this, but I understand why my parents always took the sibling’s side. They simply couldn’t deal with crazy all the time. I understand why society puts up with this. The problem is the enforcement arms of society has taken the side of crazy simply because they don’t want to be seen manhandling a tiny frame individual the way they’d have to if they got involved. The “optics” would look horrible and then they’d have to deal with dozens or hundreds of the same thing on the streets in front of their homes. It’s wrong. It’s bad. I don’t see a solution. My solution was to move as far away as possible from the crazy.
Tyranny of the minority.
We’re working on that.
Show some backbone, CNN.
Only by a very small technicality.
Kudos. It is an excellent solution. "Away" when the pin on a grenade is pulled is a fine place to be. And when the lemmings run in a direction, it is advisable to walk happily in a different direction.
Retards
Less than one percent rule the 99
There’s no backbone to be had at CNN. Liberal idiots run CNN. The liberal idiots who run CNN agree with the criticism they received, and they sincerely regret what happened. The idiots who run CNN sincerely believe that they committed a grave error by so-called misgendering someone.
There is very little backbone anywhere. All people have to do is say “no” to the wokies.
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