Bethenny Frankel has hit out at an all-girls Hamptons summer camp after she claimed girls as young as nine and ten saw male genitalia for the first time because a 'person with a penis who identifies as being a girl' was allowed to bunk with them.
'Summer camp went f***ing crazy this summer - either it was the pandemic or everybody being politically correct or it just happened to be the craziest year in camp history,' she said on her September 23 'Just B' podcast episode.
'It's an all girls camp and a person with a penis who identifies as being a girl went to the camp... The girls saw her — because it's her, because it's a male anatomy but identifying as a woman — so the other girls saw a penis.'
Bryn, Frankel's 11-year-old daughter, didn't attend the unidentified camp - she said it's a 'primarily Jewish sport' to send children away to sleepaway camp for the entire summer, and that Bryn stays home with her at 'Camp Mommy.'
Frankel said that the parents of the girls, who were nine and ten, 'obviously weren't happy' and that she understood many people might not want their child to have 'that sort of visual that soon' and
The Skinnygirl founder said that she heard the child in question was also 'making out with a lot of the different girls at the camp.'
The TV personality said that her daughter doesn't attend the camp, instead staying home with Frankel at 'Camp Mommy,' and so 'hasn't seen a penis', adding 'in a camp, she'd see girl parts so I think these conversations are also fluid'.
'It's an interesting conversation about a girl, female anatomy being in a male anatomy bunk or vice versa,' she added.
The 50-year-old 'Real Housewives of New York City' alum opened her September 23 'Just B' episode by discussing pronouns and gender identity and their presence in the lives of her 11-year-old Bryn and her peers.
'Bethenny would not have her platform without the support of the Housewives-loving queer community - she has a responsibility to speak to and about our community with respect,' a Twitter user who spoke out against the podcast segment told DailyMail.com
The 50-year-old Real Housewives of New York City alum took on a range of trans and gender issues on last week's podcast - including the revelation that kids Bryn's New York City school had to announce their pronouns in class.
'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,' Frankel said in the podcast's opening line.
'My daughter says in school, everybody has to say their pronouns. [She] didn't even know what hers were, and I can't even blame [her] - [She said] 'I know what I am, or what I think I am, but like I never have said it out loud.' So she said she didn't know.'
The podcast sparked an angry backlash on Twitter as some accused Frankel of being transphobic.
'You should spend less time talking about children's genitalia ad more on how damaging it is to speak about trans people with such suspicion like this,' replied @eerriicc9. 'You're not 'asking questions' you're being vile.'
'Hi Beth! I was going to quote the transphobic language you used... but it's too hurtful to every put it in writing,' wrote @mattmcconkey. 'Maybe do the bare minimum of research before you speak to your audience?'
'Bethenny would not have her platform without the support of the Housewives-loving queer community,' McConkey told DailyMail.com 'She has a responsibility to speak to and about our community with respect.'
'When she repeatedly referred to a trans child as a 'girl with a penis' while perpetuating old hateful stereotypes depicting trans people as predators, it was a shock. And her riff on pronoun confusion sounded like a hack 90s standup routine.'
Frankel insisted today that she 'didn't do one thing wrong' and that 'conversations are healthy,' and encouraged users to give the podcast a listen before deciding she was transphobic.
'@PageSix says I'm transphobic so it must be true…or listen to @justbpodcast & decide for yourself,' she tweeted.
'Not apologizing... so don't hold your breath,' wrote Frankel in another Twitter post. 'I didn't do a single thing wrong. People need to be able to have discussions without fearing the cancellation citations you get excited to give. Wrong celeb. Find someone afraid to troll.'
'Not apologizing... so don't hold your breath,' wrote Frankel in a Twitter post. 'I didn't do a single thing wrong. People need to be able to have discussions without fearing the cancellation citations you get excited to give. Wrong celeb. Find someone afraid to troll.'
Despite Twitter-flak about her handling of the matters of gender-identity, Frankel insisted today that she 'didn't do one thing wrong' and that 'conversations are healthy'
Others lauded Frankel for 'speak[ing]' her truth,' and not succumbing to 'cancel culture.'
'I see nothing wrong in her comments,' wrote @PeggyDolane. 'I'm curious, what words specifically are you calling her out on?'
'Anyone else feel like social media has become a space for touchy feely sanctimonious preaching? What happened to people showing us what they ate for breakfast?'
'Good for you! You are real, honest, not prejudiced on any level,' wrote another user. 'The problem is people
