CNN apologizes for ‘mistakenly’ misgendering trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney
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CNN has apologized for misgendering trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney during an on-air segment earlier this week.
On Wednesday, CNN anchor Kate Bolduan ended her 11 a.m. show, “At This Hour,” apologizing for how a correspondent on her program used the wrong pronouns — twice — to refer to Mulvaney.
“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 pronouns,” Bolduan said. “CNN aims to honor individuals’ ways of identifying themselves and we apologize for that error.”
Mulvaney, who was targeted by vicious vitriol and anti-trans hate after partnering up with Bud Light for a social media campaign in early April, was the main subject in a two-minute segment about how the LGBTQ community is reacting to “the controversy that just won’t quit.”
The beer giant has been under fire by conservatives since Mulvaney shared on her Instagram account a short video in which she was seen opening up and drinking from a Bud Light beer can emblazoned with her face.
On Tuesday, CNN national correspondent Ryan Young prepared a segment about “how much confusion [and] anger [have] been caused by this Bud Light controversy” and spoke with Bolduan about it — using male pronouns to refer to Mulvaney.
“He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with, with Bud Light,” Young said at one point when referring to Mulvaney.
After asking bar patrons in different U.S. cities how they felt about the situation, Young said were boycotting the beer for partnering up with a trans person, while others took issue with how Mulvaney was treated.
“They didn’t like how Bud Light didn’t stand by him after all this,” Young said, once again referring to Mulvaney.
Late last month, the 26-year-old TikTok star spoke out about the incident for the first time, saying that she felt abandoned by Bud Light after facing “more bullying and transphobia than [she] could have ever imagined.”
