Bette Midler Apologizes For Tweet About Caitlyn Jenner
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | August 24, 2016
Actor-singer Bette Midler has apologized for a tweet about Caitlyn Jenner.
“Now that @IAmCait has been cancelled, will she go back to being Bruce? Will Kris take him back? Do I smell a re-wedding?!” Midler tweeted on Saturday.
Midler, 70, deleted the message after several users panned it as “transphobic.”
“I hope @BetteMidler apologizes for her terrible transphobic comments and takes the time to educate herself on trans people's rights/dignity,” one user responded.
“Yes, because being transgender is just a phase? What a vile tweet. Will you go back to being irrelevant?” another user said.
Midler offered a backhanded apology – “I seem to have misread the temper of the times,” she said – which did little to mollify the outrage.
“Transphobia was never a 'temper of the times.' It's always been wrong,” one user responded.