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  • Bloomberg on ‘Some Guy in a Dress’ and ‘He, She, or It’ in 2019 –... (en)
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  • Bloomberg on ‘Some Guy in a Dress’ and ‘He, She, or It’ in 2019 Claim Former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg described transgender women as some guy in a dress, and used the pronoun it. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting In February 2020, newly resurfaced video of Mike Bloomberg purportedly showing the former New York City mayor describing transgender women as some guy in a dress and using it in lieu of a pronoun appeared just ahead of a final round of Democratic Party debates: NEW: Mike Bloomberg Referred To Transgender People As It And Some Guy Wearing A Dress As Recently As Last Year https://t.co/ihrXvtV5yV — Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) February 18, 2020 This video, which features these newly found transphobic comments from Bloomberg, also gives an extremely clear picture of his wider views, including bad drug & crime policies, and the belief that search for natural resources improved the third world. https://t.co/DNznVPE9wn Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — austin walker (@austin_walker) February 18, 2020 On February 18 2020, the New York Post published an item titled Mike Bloomberg referred to trans women as ‘it’ and ‘some guy in a dress,' describing a newly unearthed clip before indicating it was filmed less than a year earlier in March 2019: A newly unearthed video shows 2020 presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg referring to transgender women for a second time as some guy in a dress. After a new campaign ad touted the former mayor as incredibly sensitive to the LGBTQ community, a video resurfaced of Bloomberg last year referring to transgender people as he, she or it and some guy in a dress — the second time he’s been caught making such comments in recent years. In the clip, recorded in March [2019] before he announced his campaign, Bloomberg used the language to warn 2020 Democratic hopefuls against stressing transgender issues, arguing that they wouldn’t play well in Middle America ... He delivered a similar remark about a man wearing a dress while making the same point at Oxford University in 2016. As noted in the Post , Bloomberg made remarks similar to the newly surfaced clip in 2016 : I know this video has been shared also, but perhaps you missed it. Here is Bloomberg describing Transwomen as some man in a dress. Deeply problematic but also deeply rooted in conservative orthodoxy. #MikeBloombergIsARepublican pic.twitter.com/sUVyfyPu8o — Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) February 10, 2020 Multiple clips of Bloomberg describing transgender people as it and again calling transgender women some guy in a dress circulated on YouTube on February 18 2020: Bloomberg on transgender rights, in 2019: If your conversation during a presidential campaign is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or IT can go to the locker room.. You can see where somebody like Trump comes from. pic.twitter.com/d2tVWfSsfU — cursed-dem ❁ (@kallllisti) February 19, 2020 BuzzFeed News reported on the 2019 remarks, providing a date and context for them. Also included was a longer version of the video and larger context for the discussion; Bloomberg made the remarks around the 12-minute, 45-second mark: Bloomberg’s sensitivity [to the LGBTQ community] was far less apparent at a forum hosted by the Bermuda Business Development Agency on March 21, 2019, in Manhattan, where Bloomberg derided Democratic candidates for talking about transgender protections. If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she, or it can go to the locker room with their daughter, that’s not a winning formula for most people, he said. Bloomberg made a similar remark about a man wearing a dress in 2016, but his comments uncovered [on February 18 2020] — remarks he made less than a year [prior] — came amid the early stages of the 2020 Democratic primary. The video was posted to YouTube shortly after the March [2019] event, but has received few views. Bloomberg was not a candidate for president at the time, but announced his campaign just eight months after he made the remarks. Before the 2019 video circulated, Bloomberg drew scrutiny for having made similar remarks in 2016 . In the first of the two clips above, Bloomberg spoke in England on December 8 2016, and said: If you want to know if somebody is a good salesman, give him the job of going to the Midwest and picking a town and selling to that town the concept that some man wearing a dress should be in a locker room with their daughter... if you can sell that, you can sell anything. They just look at you and they say, ‘What on Earth are you talking about?’ Multiple tweets and Facebook posts referenced newly resurfaced video of Mike Bloomberg making the some guy in a dress and it comments about transgender people. Although there were two known sets of remarks, the unearthed version was not very old — having taken place in 2019. The quotations were accurate, and the claim is true . Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged bloomberg , bloomberg trans comments , lgbtq , Michael Bloomberg , some guy in a dress , transgender , transphobia , viral facebook posts , viral tweets , viral videos (en)
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