CNN under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney: ‘Unbelievably bad’

CNN is under fire for misgendering Dylan Mulvaney as “he” and “him” in a segment about the “culture war” being waged over the transgender influencer’s partnership with Bud Light.

Correspondent Ryan Young failed to use the 26-year-old influencer’s preferred pronouns in a short segment about the backlash against the beer giant that has led to plummeting sales.

Young also mispronounced Mulvaney’s first name as “Dylvan” while describing the social media star to “CNN News Central” viewers Tuesday.

“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 preferred “she.”

“But [trans activists] didn’t like how Bud Light didn’t stand by him after all this,” Young said, again failing to use the influencer’s preferred “they.”

Media Matters critic Ari Drennen shared footage of the less-than-2-minute clip, ripping it as an “unbelievably bad CNN segment.”

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“God damn, that sucked,” agreed the media watchdog’s research director, Craig Harrington.

“Wow, absolute garbage segment,” a Media Matters follower wrote, while another called it “despicably poor ‘journalism.'”

“What horrible coverage and the pundit couldn’t even correct the misgendering of Dylan. This makes me sad,” another said.

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CNN eventually apologized at the end of Wednesday’s episode of “News Central.”

Referring to Mulvaney,  Bolduan said: “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.”

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Mulvaney — who left the US to travel in Peru over safety fears sparked by the Bud backlash — also does not appear to have commented on it.