Bloomberg is in hot water again, this time over comments he made last year about transgenders:
Bloomberg not only referred to them as ‘it’, he also characterized them as a ‘man in a dress’ trying to get into a girl’s locker room. As you can imagine, the LGBTQ community is not happy with these comments and are demanding that Bloomberg apologize:
NBC NEWS – The Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ civil rights group, is calling on former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg to apologize for comments that he made last year about transgender people.
In 2019, Bloomberg called people who identify as transgender “it” and “some guy wearing a dress” who enters locker rooms, according to video that was first reported by BuzzFeed News on Tuesday and verified by NBC News.
“Transgender women aren’t “he-she or it”, they’re women. LGBTQ people are human and deserve to be treated with respect,” said HRC President Alphonso David in a statement Tuesday.
“Words matter and Mayor Bloomberg should apologize for using language that demoralizes and dehumanizes members of our community,” he added.
Bloomberg responded to the controversy by saying that he wasn’t describing how he sees transgenders, but only how other people perceive them. Whatever the case, there’s one thing you can count on. All of his past controversial comments that have recently come to light will be brought up at the debate tonight in Las Vegas, and we’ll all get to see him squirm as he’s attacked from all sides.
Might have to tune into this one.