Sam Amico
CNN is taking some heat after correspondent Ryan Young referred to Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” during a story on how Bud Light sales have massively tanked since hiring the transgender influencer.
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Young not only failed to use Mulvaney’s preferred pronouns, but also referred to Mulvaney as “Dylvan” during the short segment on CNN News Central.
“He, of course, is the transgender person they were going to sponsor and go along with, with Bud Light,” Young said, using “he” instead of Mulvaney’s preference of “she.”
“But [trans activists] didn’t like how Bud Light didn’t stand by him after all this,” Young added, again failing to use Mulvaney’s preferred “they.”
Neither Young nor host Kate Bolduan corrected themselves during the segment — though Bolduan eventually did offer an apology.
“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,” Bolduan said, via the New York Post.
Mulvaney has been outspoken in the use of incorrect pronouns in the mainstream media.
Media Matters critic Ari Drennen called the clip an “unbelievably bad CNN segment.”
As has been well-documented, Bud Light sales have plummeted since introducing the Mulvaney campaign, as the beer has fallen from its perch as America’s best-seller for the first time in 40 years.
