Posted on 08/24/2023 4:03:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
He becomes the latest shock rocker to share his distaste for gender-affirming care after Dee Snider and Paul Stanley shared similar views.
While he may be best known as one of the gender-bending faces of the shock rock movement, Alice Cooper revealed that he’s not in favor of real gender-affirming care.
In a new interview with Stereogum, the 75-year-old rock star shared his opinions about best-practice medical care for transgender youth, saying that he was “afraid that it’s also a fad.” Using common anti-trans talking points to elaborate, the star said that he felt children were not mature enough to make major decisions about their gender identity.
“I find it wrong when you’ve got a 6-year-old kid who has no idea. He just wants to play, and you’re confusing him telling him, ‘Yeah, you’re a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be,'” he said. “I mean, if you identify as a tree … I’m going, ‘Come on! What are we in, a Kurt Vonnegut novel?’ It’s so absurd, that it’s gone now to the point of absurdity.”
Cooper then took aim at “the whole woke thing” at large, claiming that society has taken progressive language too far. “Who’s making the rules?” he asked. “It’s getting to the point now where it’s laughable. 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.”
The “School’s Out” singer even shared anti-trans rhetoric about access to public bathrooms, claiming that allowing transgender people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their gender identity would lead to violent crimes. “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,” Cooper said. “He’s just taking advantage of that situation … Somebody’s going to get raped.”
Despite Cooper’s claims, research shows that gender-affirming care significantly reduces rates of depression and suicidality among transgender youth. Meanwhile, medical professionals providing gender-affirming care point out that minors are not able to make these life-altering decisions by themselves, and that the Endocrine Society and the World Professional Association for Transgender Health do not recommend gender-affirming surgery for anyone under the age of 18.
RELATED Billboard Trans Youth Here’s What Gender-Affirming Care Actually Is, Since Brittany Aldean Seems To Have… 08/23/2023 “Prior to any gender-affirming medical or surgical intervention, all minors must have an intake with a knowledgeable mental health provider internal to our system,” Dr. Joshua D. Safer told Billboard last year. “Once deemed ready for a medical/surgical intervention, the processes we have for adults are then brought into play.”
The “No More Mr. Nice Guy” singer is far from the first rocker to share anti-trans sentiments over the last year. In May, Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley called gender-affirming care “a sad and dangerous fad,” making similar claims to Cooper about children “playing” with gender rather than understanding their identity. Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider backed up Stanley’s comments, saying “there was a time where I ‘felt pretty’ too. Glad my parents didn’t jump to any rash conclusions.” Both rockers have since walked back their comments.
Well, only women bleed.
I will never understand how liberals can call sterilizing children and cutting off their breasts, genitals and reproductive organs “gender affirming care.”
Yeah, but I thought Rap “music” would only last a year or two.
Before Obama/Biden queered the Whitehouse, this was common sense and didn't need to said.
I’m glad you put “music” in quotes. :-)
Cooper is a Born Again Christian.
Cooper is a fine entertainer who has had his head on straight for a long, long time.
Good for Alice.
I was a tomboy growing up (still am to a degree in some ways).
I CAN’T IMAGINE some plonker at my school pulling me aside to talk me into being a dude. Who knows where my life would be now?
I do like my femininity but still love karate, hunting/fishing, ...many things.
I’m blessed with two great kids.
Not mature enough to legally drink, smoke, vote, drive a car, possess a firearm, join the military, or be criminally prosecuted as an adult, but mature enough at age 15 for gender affirming drugs, brainwashing, and surgery.
Yeah, the name is of a girl, but that's it.
Now Dee Snider and Twisted Sister with Milton Berle in drag in their videos is another matter entirely.
“I will never understand how liberals can call sterilizing children and cutting off their breasts, genitals and reproductive organs “gender affirming care.””
Someone on FR published an article a few weeks ago that posited that with liberals, whatever the subject was, that wasn’t the real subject. Therefore, you can’t argue with a liberal. I think the real subject is that they want to reduce the population because humans bad for planet. This is just one more way, along with abortion, to cut down the birth rate.
isn’t it “the issue isn’t the issue, the issue is always the revolution” or something like that?
Alice Cooper....
“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are”
“isn’t it “the issue isn’t the issue, the issue is always the revolution” or something like that?”
Something like that.
Hello FRiend,
Hope this finds you well 🙃
When they’ve lost Alice Cooper.
Welcome to my nightmare
I think you’re gonna like it
I think you’re gonna feel you belong
A nocturnal vacation
Unnecessary sedation
You want to feel at home cause you belong
Welcome to my breakdown
I hope I didn’t scare you
That’s just the way we are when we come down
We sweat and laugh and scream here
Cause life is just a dream here
You know inside you feel right at home here
Remember Alice Cooper’s “Welcome to My Nightmare.”
Now, we live in a real-life nightmare.
Or how about scraping out a fetus and calling it healthcare?
“Using common anti-trans talking points to elaborate, the star said that he felt children were not mature enough to make major decisions about their gender identity.”
Let’s play spot the bias.
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