Rock icon Alice Cooper trashed trans ideology and gender reassignment surgeries for children as a “fad.”
In an interview with Stereogum, Cooper was asked about radical gender ideologies that target young people, to which the 75-year-old rocker called the transgender push “absurd.”
“I understand that there are cases of transgender, but I’m afraid that it’s also a fad, and I’m afraid there’s a lot of people claiming to be this just because they want to be that,” Cooper said.
“I find it wrong when you’ve got a six-year-old kid who has no idea,” Cooper said.
“He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him by telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'”
Alice Cooper called trans ideology and the entire gender movement “laughable.”
“It’s getting to the point now where it’s laughable,” he said. “If anybody was trying to make a point on this thing, they turned it into a huge comedy.”
“I don’t know one person that agrees with the woke thing,” Cooper told Stereogum. “I don’t know one person.
“Everybody I talk to says, ‘Isn’t it stupid?’ And I’m going, ‘Well, I respect people. I respect people and who they are, but I’m not going to tell a seven-year-old boy, “Go put a dress on because maybe you’re a girl,” and he’s going, “No, I’m not. I’m a boy.” ‘”
While Cooper has tried to remain apolitical, he said when it comes to one’s God-given gender, he couldn’t stay quiet.
“If you have these genitals, you’re a boy. If you have those genitals, you’re a girl,” he said. “Who is making the rules?”
Cooper also expressed anxiety about where society is headed.
“A guy can walk into a woman’s bathroom at any time and just say, ‘I just feel like I’m a woman today’ and have the time of his life in there, and he’s not in the least bit … He’s just taking advantage of that situation,” Cooper said. “We’ve got to get this under control.”
He concluded:
“Well, that’s going to happen. Somebody’s going to get raped, and the guy’s going to say, ‘Well, I felt like a girl that day, and then I felt like a guy.’ Where do you draw this line?”
Paul Stanley of Kiss generated similar outrage when he posted about the trans issue on social media.
“With many children who have no real sense of sexuality or sexual experiences caught up in the ‘fun’ of using pronouns and saying what they identify as some adults mistakenly confuse teaching acceptance with normalizing and encouraging a situation that has been a struggle for those truly affected and have turned it into a sad and dangerous fad,” he said.
Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider agreed with with Stanley.
“You know what?” he wrote. “There was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions.”
But Stanley walked back his comments in a post on social media after apparently facing the wrath of the radical left.
“While my thoughts were clear, my words clearly were not,” the singer said. “Most importantly and above all else, I support those struggling with their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and those whose path leads them to reassignment surgery.”
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