--- title: "Bethenny Frankel Defends Comments About Pronoun Use and Gender Identity; Encourages People To Try and Cancel Her" url: https://allabouttrh.com/2021/09/29/bethenny-frankel-defends-comments-about-pronoun-use-and-gender-identity-encourages-people-to-try-and-cancel-her/ type: post date: 2021-09-29 modified: 2021-09-28 markdown_url: https://allabouttrh.com/2021/09/29/bethenny-frankel-defends-comments-about-pronoun-use-and-gender-identity-encourages-people-to-try-and-cancel-her.md author: "Lara Sophia" --- # Bethenny Frankel Defends Comments About Pronoun Use and Gender Identity; Encourages People To Try and Cancel Her The B is Doubling down in a MAJOR way. Bethenny Frankel defends her controversial comments about pronoun use and gender identity made on the Thursday, September 23 episode of her [Just B With Bethenny](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/candace-bushnell/id1531000011?i=1000536366102) podcast. *“Nominate me for cancelation,”* the former *Real Housewives of New York* star wrote via Twitter on Monday, September 28. *“There are, like, five others before you so take a number.”* In another tweet, Bethenny said she *“was absolutely not wrong,”* before adding, *“I’m going to discuss this again this week. Thankfully I have a platform to clarify what the media loves to distort. PS I’m not afraid of cancelation so not afraid of charged discussions.”* B's tweets came five days after she talked on her podcast about her 11-year-old daughter Brynn's school having a discussion about pronoun use. *“We have to go into the fact that I did a Zoom for my daughter’s school and [had] the pronouns conversation with each teacher, each parent, each child,”* she explained.* “And my daughter says in school, too, that everybody has to say their pronouns. And my daughter didn’t even know what hers were.”* She went on to share a story she heard about a *“person with a penis, who identifies as being a girl,”* being in a bunk with other girls at a summer camp. *“So the other girls saw a penis,”* she said. *“They’re 9, 10 years old, so the parents obviously weren’t that happy. … A penis often goes into a vagina often so they might not want that visual so soon.”* Bethenny went on to say that if she was raising a transgender child she would *“want my child to go to another camp where there were kids in the same situation.”* She added, *“Not every situation is set up to make someone thrive. I know parents who won’t send their children to very athletic school because they’re … not jocks so they’re gonna set them up for not feeling successful. … You can’t make every situation fit. The camp didn’t think it through.”* The former Bravoleb also shared her opinion on inclusive bathrooms in schools, saying, *“What happens if a child isn’t ready to make a decision? Don’t a lot of girls in college have a lesbian phase and then they realize that they’re not? Maybe they’re going through something, maybe they want attention, maybe they’re going through a bad breakup. What is the age that someone’s absolutely positive who they are? There’s got to be gray area. … I’ve heard of situations when [people] unmake that decision. What does that mean for that camp? What does that mean for that bunk? Maybe a mother isn’t ready for her child to see a penis in a bunk and understand that child identifies as a girl.”* Before moving on Bethenny clarified that Bryn *“understands all this”* and notes that she finds the preteen’s knowledge *“amazing,”* before adding, *“She also hasn’t seen a penis. In a camp, she would see girl parts.”* Reactions to Bethenny's comments were a mixed bag with some telling haters to *“stop the witch hunt,”* while others called Bethenny's comments *“offensive.”* *“No one’s trying to cancel you, just educate you that your discussion was offensive to a lot of people. Maybe this wasn’t the reaction you were expecting, but we need to be more graceful when talking about this stuff on a huge platform,”* one fan wrote, while another added, *“B not a good way to apologize. Your intro to the podcast WAS offensive. Let’s learn something here.”* Bethenny maintained that she *“didn’t do one thing wrong,”* saying, *“Conversations are healthy. Try it. Doubling down. I’m not a celeb who panics in fear of cancelation Bc I didn’t say something precisely how you needed to hear it. I don’t have a transphobic bone on my body so take it elsewhere. Watch Handmaid's Tale. Does anyone else feel like social media has beco**me a space for touchy-feely sanctimonious preaching? What happened to people showing us what they ate for breakfast?”* See what else B had to say on Twitter below! ![](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-9.24.52-PM-480x135.png) ![](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-9.28.16-PM-480x203.png) ![](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-9.28.29-PM-480x178.png) ![](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-9.28.41-PM-480x185.png) ![](https://allabouttrh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-28-at-9.28.56-PM-376x300.png) It's unclear when and if the Real Housewives of New York will return for season 14. ## Thoughts on this all? 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