Mike Bloomberg Called Trans Women A “Man Wearing A Dress”
February 18, 2020A recent video recently come out where Democratic presidential candidate Micheal Bloomberg referred to trans women as a “man wearing a dress”, and implying that people in the US Midwest are not intelligent enough for equality to make sense to them.
The video was taken in 2016 while Bloomberg was talking at a University of Oxford event in England about trans people using the bathroom, a controversial issue in the United States at that time.
Bloomberg pointed to the issue around trans rights and bathrooms to support his argument that there is
“a fundamental disconnect between us believing the rights of the individual come first and the general belief around the world — I think it's fair to say — that the rights of society come first.”
He added that “If you want to know if somebody is a good salesman, give them 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.”
Despite these comments, the Trump administration has done more than harm the trans community and that’s the reason why the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund Executive Director Mara Keisling told ‘Business Insider’ her organisation would support any candidate trying to prevent Trump's reelection.
“This year everybody needs to understand, and our community needs to understand, we really have a choice between four more years of this heartless, thoughtless, dangerous agenda of President Trump, or whoever his opponent is,” Keisling said. “And whoever his opponent is, they are most certainly going to need some education.”
While Kiesling did not approve of the way Bloomberg had addressed transgender issues in the past, she referred to his current pro-equality policy proposals, saying, “We have to allow people to change and grow and embrace them when they come around and become more educated and more respectful.
“Almost every Democratic candidate, including Mayor Bloomberg," she continued, "really has a strong pro-equality agenda on paper, and we're just going to need to make sure that they are individually sufficiently educated so that they respect us, and they work to make things better for us," Keisling said.
Last month Bloomberg released his current pro-equality policy proposals stating: “As president, I will work to protect every member of the LGBTQ+ community from hatred, violence, and discrimination. We will close disparities in health care access and quality, stop violence against transgender people, and advocate for equal rights across the world. We cannot settle for anything less – and I won’t.”
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