Rock star Alice Cooper was dropped from an upcoming makeup deal with Vampyre Cosmetics following his recent comments about the transgender community.
"In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper, we will no longer be doing a makeup collaboration," the company said last week.
"We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare," the statement continued. "All pre-order sales will be refunded."
Cooper had told Stereogum writer Rachel Brodsky in an interview published on Aug. 23 that, although he believes there are some true cases of transgenderism, "I'm afraid that it's also a fad.
"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 [by] telling him, Yeah, you're a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be," he said.
Known for his own challenges to gender norms throughout the 1970s and '80s, Cooper warned that fluid sexuality and androgyny could be used in harmful ways toward others.
"I can see somebody really taking advantage of this," Cooper explained. "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 just taking advantage of that situation."
The rocker is the latest in a series of individuals to call out transgender issues. Paul Stanley of Kiss and Dee Snider of Twisted Sister have slammed the rise of transgender procedures performed on minors.
Both Stanley and Snider have since rephrased their initial comments to stress that they support the well-being of transgender individuals.
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Luca Cacciatore, a Newsmax general assignment writer, is based in Arlington, Virginia, reporting on news and politics.
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