Mike Bloomberg called trans women a 'man wearing a dress' and implied equality 'makes no sense' to Midwesterners

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• In 2016, Michael Bloomberg brought up transgender people using the bathroom when he was asked a question about Brexit. 
• The current presidential hopeful referred to a hypothetical transgender woman as a "man wearing a dress" and implied people in the Midwest couldn't understand social issues.
• A statement from the Bloomberg campaign insists he is dedicated to protecting the rights of the transgender community. 
• A spokesperson for the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund told Business Insider that the former mayor should be allowed to grow, and said his past comments indicated an issue with his education on trans issues.
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Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg came under fire Thursday after a recently surfaced 2016 video showed him referring to transgender women as a "man wearing a dress," and suggesting that people in the US Midwest are not intelligent enough to understand social issues.

While speaking at a University of Oxford event in England, Bloomberg, 77, brought up the topic of transgender people using the bathroom, which at the time was a controversial issue in the U.S. 

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