CNN got trapped in its own machinations when host Anderson Cooper misgendered a nonbinary Civil Rights attorney, leaving Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders’ jaws wide ajar. Cooper was hosting the network’s town hall event featuring the United States Senator for Vermont when he introduced a they/them pronoun-using liberal activist as a woman.
I want to introduce Grace Thomas. She is a local civil rights attorney. She is a Democrat, right?” Cooper said.
“They/them pronouns, actually. Thank you,” Thomas said.
The pronoun slip hit Sanders’ 107-year-old brain like a brick from the blues, leaving him stunned and scowling so hard that he must have popped a vein.
Undoubtedly, Cooper made an honest mistake since they/them pronoun-using individuals do not wear pronoun labels to help the rest of humanity know how to address them in advance. The least they could do is tattoo their pronouns on their forehead to make life easier for everybody.
For the curious folks out there, it remains unclear if Thomas was born a woman or had transitioned. Those with that information will also tell you that disclosing someone’s gender except their preferred one is a violation of privacy.
Interesting to see if they will cancel Cooper for making the same mistake every commonsense-using person does regularly and pays dearly for it. Recently, a Christian nurse was suspended for addressing a transgender convicted pedophile as “Mister.”
Nonetheless, conservative netizens had a field day with the CNN host for misgendering a non-binary host, which, by now, should be against the network’s policies.
“CNN’s Anderson Cooper gets corrected after misgendering a civil rights attorney at a town hall event with Bernie Sanders. Wow, what a bigot. Lmao,” posted Trending Politics co-founder Collin Rugg.
Riley Gaines, an outspoken former collegiate female athlete who competed against transgender athlete Lia Thomas in 2022, called for Cooper’s immediate resignation. West Virginia recently passed the Riley Gaines Act, which was inspired by a 14-year-old who refused to compete against a transgender opponent.
“Calling for Anderson Cooper’s immediate resignation for believing what his eyes were telling him he saw Bigot,” she X’ed.
Similarly, conservative political commentator Gunther Eagleman encouraged Democrats to continue fighting over pronouns to make GOP the party of choice for logical Americans.
“Anderson Cooper just misgendered a Civil Rights attorney. They are not serious. Keep on putting the pronoun police on camera, we will win every election.”
Meanwhile, transgender rights remain a divisive issue among Democrats, with some feeling that the party has strayed too far from reality and alienated many American voters.
During the 2024 election campaigns, Trump saw an opportunity and capitalized on it to paint Kamala as a far-left liberal whose values clashed with most Americans’.
“Kamala is for they/them; President Trump is for you,” Trump’s ad claimed.
However, those in the far-left want to double down on trans rights, risking splitting the party. They even tried to cancel California governor and potential 2028 Democratic presidential frontrunner Gavin Newsom when he said allowing trans athletes in women’s sports was “deeply unfair.”
