Bloomberg called trans people “it” just last year, video mysteriously vanishes

Shortly after Buzzfeed News reported on a video of 2020 Democratic hopeful Mike Bloomberg referring to transgender people as “it”, the YouTube clip has gone private.

In the recording, taken in March 2019 at a forum hosted by the Bermuda Business Development Agency in Manhattan, Bloomberg argues that talking about transgender rights is a losing strategy during a presidential election.

“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 says.

And while the clip has since been removed from YouTube, it’s currently all over Twitter:

According to Buzzfeed, Bloomberg went on to say:

“And so you can understand where somebody like Trump comes from. You can understand when you look at the Democratic Party, they are so far left that two years ago there was nobody on their side who would take these positions, and today virtually all the candidates for president of the Democratic Party are so progressive. I don’t know what progressive means.”

The comments echo this 2016 quote from Bloomberg:

“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.”

A campaign spokesperson responded:

“Mike understands that the transgender community…

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