Ex-Bud Employees Slam Bosses Over Handling of Dylan Mulvaney Fiasco: ‘Incompetence on a National Level’

Former employees at Anheuser-Busch argued the Bud Light maker mishandled its response to the Dylan Mulvaney controversy, the New York Post reported.

Bud Light fell from its spot as America's top-selling beer following a conservative boycott after it sent transgender TikTok star Mulvaney a special can to celebrate "365 days of girlhood," according to the Post.

"I really wish that we had stuck to our guns and said: 'We did this; beer is for everyone; get over it,'" an anonymous former employee at the company told The Guardian.

Another former employee said the company had "incompetence in leadership on a national level," according to The Guardian.

American LGBTQ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign, which suspended the company's corporate index score, took a similar stance. "In this moment, it is absolutely critical for Anheuser-Busch to stand in solidarity with Dylan and the trans community," the Campaign's Chief of Staff, Jay Brown, said in a statement, according to The Guardian.

Anheuser-Busch initially stood by the campaign, but later responded in a statement by its CEO, Brendan Whitworth, who said it "never intended to be part of a discussion that divides people. We are in the business of bringing people together over a beer," The Guardian added.

"There was a lot of panic and a lot of rash decision-making," another former employee said on the company's actions related to the boycott, arguing its public response "basically said nothing," according to The Guardian.

Earlier this summer, Mulvaney also hit back at the beer maker for hiring "a trans person and then not publicly stand[ing] by them," which she says "is worse than not hiring a trans person at all." The company respond saying they were committed to the LGBTQ+ community.

Anheuser-Busch did not immediately respond to The Messenger's request for comment.